Windows

It is helpful to think of Aspen Graphics in terms of trading activities and after-market-hours activities. Window Management is an after-market-hours activity.

Think of Windows as the constituent elements of Workspaces. If you lay out a quote window in a way that is particularly useful to you, saving it enables you to use it over and over in the Workspaces you build. This makes the Window Manager a Workspace layout tool. Window Management involves the following activities:

• Importing windows

• Accessing folders on a LAN

• Renaming tabs

• Renaming windows

• Deleting tabs

• Deleting windows

• Refreshing a tab

• Clearing the desktop

• Displaying default windows

Use the Window Manager to create the Workspaces you use during trading hours.

There are two ways to display the Window Manager. Click the Open Window button in the Tool Bar, or choose the Open Window... selection in the File Menu.

The Window manager is a tabbed dialog. Each tab represents a folder on a local or network hard drive. Each .agw file is a window file in the respective folder.

Importing Windows

Window import makes a copy of a file in your local Aspen environment. Your local Aspen environment contains a Windows folder. Within the Windows folder, there are several sub folders, one for each available window type. When you import a file, you are making a copy of a file in your local Aspen environment.

To import a window, follow these steps:

1. Click the Import Window button in the tool bar.
   
   A file browse dialog is displayed.
   
   
    

2. Navigate to the location of the file you want to import.
    

3. Select the file you want to import.
    

4. Click Open.

Pointing to Folders on a Network

You can also direct the Window Manager to list the content of a folder outside of your local Aspen environment.

To direct the Window Manager to list a non-local folder, follow these steps:

1. Click the Create a New Folder button in the tool bar.
   
   This opens a new tab and selects the tab name for editing.
    

2. Name the folder by typing a name and pressing Enter.
    

3. Right Click on the new folder's tab.
   
   The Tab Menu is displayed.
    

4. Select Choose Folder...
   
   This displays the Browse for Folder dialog:
   
   
    

5. Navigate to the folder want to access.
    

6. Select the folder.
    

7. Click OK.

Renaming a Tab

Renaming a Window

Deleting a Folder

To delete a tab, click on the tab you want to delete. Then click the Delete Folder button in the tool bar.

The process of deletion varies, depending on the location of the folder the tab represents. If the tab represents a folder in your local Aspen environment, deletion moves the folder and all files in it to the recycle bin (Aspen asks you to confirm such deletions). On the other had, if the tab represents a folder outside of the Aspen environment, deletion just destroys the link. Neither the folder nor the files are deleted.

Deleting a Window

Clearing the Screen

To remove all windows from the Aspen desktop, click the Clear Screen button in the tool bar.

Refreshing a Tab

To refresh the files in a tab, click the Refresh button in the tool bar.

Displaying Default Windows

A default window is a blank, or empty, window. There are two ways to display a default window. Click a window icon in the tool bar (see The Window Manager Tool Bar), or choose New from the File Menu. Selecting New displays a list of available window types.