**Main_Window For general information about the program, how to get on line help, how to use the mouse, how to print windows, authorship, distribution, copyright etc, press the page_up button. ** To exit the program choose Quit from the menu in the main window. ** The main window lets you find objects in the database in two different ways: (1) You can pick a class by clicking with the left mouse button. Clicking again will give a list of all objects in that class in the Selection Window. You can restrict this list by typing a template in the Template box. When you press the Return key you activate the search. Name recognition is not case sensitive. A '*' in the template will match anything; e.g. "S*" will match all names beginning with 'S', "*S*" will match all names containing an 'S', "*a*b" all names containing an 'A' and ending with a 'B'. To actually display the object you must pick its names twice in the Selection Window (see help for Selection Window). (2) You can type a text string in the Text Search box (first click on it with the left button to make it yellow). This will find all the objects in the database which contain the search text. More precisely, we find all objects whose name contains the search string, all objects they refer to, and all containing Text (or other X class data) containing the search string. In addition the Main Window menu allows access to many other applications and functions of acedb. Menu entries: Quit Quits entire program Help Gets the on line Help Program Status Info on the database Clean up Kills all acedb windows except main Add update file To read the official data updates Query Starts a window which has its own help. Deficiencies Primitive tool to analyse deficiency data. Genetics Run the get buttons to preprocess Mapping data DNA Starts a window which has its own help. Wild Worms Starts an OPEN-WINDOWS screen saver if available Toggle entry (you only see one of these at a time) Write Access Select this to get write access to the database. If you are not registered in wspec/passwd, you will not be offered this option. Save Saves all changes permanently and releases write access. The following entries only exist if you have Super-User access Add/Alias/Rename Starts a window which has its own help. Read .ace files Starts a window which has its own help. Align maps Starts a window which has its own help. Read Models Run this after modifying wspec/models.wrm Dump asn models Produces an asn definition file. Dump Dumps the whole databse in ace format. Slow. Debugger Calls the function "invokeDebugger()", set a break on this function in your favorite debugger. Test subroutine Calls acedbtest(), for use to test new code. Back to Index