L3 Comminications SERIES 5000 Operation And Maintenance Manual - 4.12 Session Menu

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CHAPTER 4 SonarPro Ver. 11.0 Operating Instructions

Series 5000 Sonar System Operations and Maintenance Manual

P/N 11210060, Rev. 13.0

4.11 Opening Additional Sonar Viewer Windows

New Viewer

Click this button on the Main tool bar to open additional Sonar Viewer windows. It 

can be used to display sonar data differently in separate windows. For example, the 

data can be slant range corrected or displayed with a different color palette.

4.12 Session Menu

The Session menu allows you to set up individual work spaces with individual 

operator preferences and to open and save cable out and depth output devices that 

have been set up in the Cable Out and Depth Output dialog boxes. (See “Choosing 

or Setting up an External Cable Out Source” on page 4-60 and “Towfish Depth” 

on page 4-62.) You can also exit from SonarPro from the Session menu. The 

following items are on the Session menu:

• Choose New State when you want to set SonarPro to its default 

settings.

• Choose Open State File to open a previously saved session. A 

search box will open. Look for yourfile.ini. This will read the 

session file and restore SonarPro to the state it was in when the 

session file was created. If you want to have SonarPro in a state 

with resized window sizes, you must click on and under the 

general tab set window sizes to manual.

• Choose Save State, to Registry to save the current session state to 

the Windows registry. The next time SonarPro is started, it will 

open in this state.

• Choose Save State, to File to save a separate work space session. 

For example, each operator may prefer to have the windows in 

SonarPro sized differently. This can be saved in a yourfile.ini file.

• Choose Open Devices File to open a previously saved cable out or 

depth output device file.

• Choose Save Devices, to File to save the current cable out or depth 

output device settings to a file.

• Choose Exit to exit from SonarPro. You can also exit from 

SonarPro by clicking the X button in the Main window. Then 

SonarPro is closed down this way, the current session is saved. The 

next time you start SonarPro, it will be set up the way you exited.