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Primary Console

This is the console you use most of the time. It looks like Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1. Primary console, no data loaded yet.

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The only active button in Figure 4-1 is Load at this time because there is no data set loaded yet. Each button in the console (in fact, every UI component in Argos) knows when to be active and when to be inactive. Some of the buttons will come alive after you load a data set. For example, the primary console will look like the following

Figure 4-2. Primary console, data loaded

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after you load a data set.

You can press F2 in the scenegraph, the floating paint palette, or any one of the viewports (plots or non-modal dialogs) to raise the primary console to the top so that it's not covered by any other windows. The window over which you press F2 has to have the focus of your windowing system. In general, clicking the title bar of a window or any place inside of it will make it the focused window.

The primary console is divided into the following areas:

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