Profile Control


A Profile Control is the under interface to the Mira profile protocol. A profile is a collection of preferences managed under a single name. This topic describes how to work with profiles in Mira.

As an example of the user interface to a profile, consider the Combine Images dialog shown below. As you can see, there are many preferences visible but this is only part of the set of parameters that are used by the Combine Images command. For the user to remember all the settings necessary to repeat a particular combining procedure would be quite involved and therefore prone to mistakes. The Profile Control solves this problem by managing all the preferences under a single name. You can see that a profile named Simple Mean is its current selection. The parameters shown in this dialog are those stored in a profile named "Simple Mean".

The Profile Control consists of a list box, a (save) button, and an arrow that opens a command menu. Together, these controls work like the familiar commands you would use to work with files: Open, Save, Save As, Delete, and "Read only". The profile control from the above dialog is shown below:

The profile control supervises all the preferences in the dialog. After changing preferences, you may wish to update them in the current profile. To do so, click to save the changes; otherwise the settings are used but not saved. Other commands are available in the profile drop menu which is opened by clicking . These extra commands allow you to save the settings to a new profile, delete the profile, and "lock" the profile from changes.

Profile Operations

 

Component

Operation

Description

List box

Open

Selects the profile from a list of existing profiles and opens its preferences into the dialog.

Save As

Saves the current preferences to a new profile. It also provides a way to overwrite the current profile by confirming you want to do so.

Open menu

The drop arrow opens the command menu containing other components described below.

Menu Commands

 

 

Save

Save

Saves the current settings.

Save As

Save As

Saves the current preferences to a new profile (same as ). You are prompted to enter a new profile name.

Delete

Delete

Deletes the current profile and removes it from the list.

Locked

Unlocked

Change "read-only" status

Sets or Clears the "read only" status for the profile. If the profile is "Locked" then changed cannot be save to it. A profile must be "Unlocked" before you can update it. Use this method to protect your profiles from accidental changes.

 

Related Topics

Profiles, User Interface