Visualizations View

The Visualizations view displays current visualizations created in iTools. The visualizations can be created programatically, on the command line, or via the Tool Palette.

Tip
For more information, see Using the Visualize Perspective

When you first open IDL 7.1, the Visualizations view displays links to the tutorial video and to the relevant online help topic:

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As soon as you create an iTool visualization, this view displays thumbnails that represent the current visualizations.
This view also allows you to control visualizations. To bring a visualization to the front, simply click on the thumbnail. To close a visualization, right-click on it and select Close.

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Close all visualizations by clicking the double-x icon in the upper right of the view.

By default, the Visualizations view is included only in the Visualize perspective. To add the Visualizations view to the IDL perspective:

  1. Select Window → Show View → Other.

    2. The Show View dialog displays.

  2. Select IDL → Visualizations.

For more information about the Visualizations view and how to use it, see Visualize Perspective Elements.

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Visualizations view contains the following buttons:

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Toolbar Button
Description

Close all

Closes all open visualizations. To close visualizations individually, use the context menu for each visualization shown in the view.

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Minimize

Minimizes the view in the perspective.

Maximize

Maximizes the view in the perspective.