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11 <title>Loading the LTPDA Workbench (LTPDA Toolbox)</title>
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15 "Presents an overview of the features, system requirements, and starting the toolbox.">
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21 <p style="font-size:1px;">&nbsp;</p>
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23 <table class="nav" summary="Navigation aid" border="0" width=
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25 <tr>
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26 <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td>
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29 "ltpda_workbench.html"><img src="b_prev.gif" border="0" align=
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30 "bottom" alt="The LTPDA Workbench"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=
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31 "lwb_mouseKeyboard.html"><img src="b_next.gif" border="0" align=
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32 "bottom" alt="Mouse and keyboard actions"></a></td>
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36 <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Loading the LTPDA Workbench</h1>
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37 <hr>
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41 <h2> Overview </h2>
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43 <p>
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44 An LTPDA Workbench is a collection of pipelines. Each pipeline can have sub-pipelines
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45 which are represented as <i>subsystem blocks</i> on the parent canvas. Nested subsystems
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46 are supported to any depth. </p>
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47 <p>
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48 Only one LTPDA Workbench can be open at any one time, but a collection of pipelines
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49 in a workbench saved on disk can be imported to the current workbench.
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50 </p>
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51 <p>
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52 Each block/element must have a unique name on a particular canvas.
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53 </p>
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54 <p>
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55 The following annotated screen-shot describes the main elements of the workbench
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56 interface:
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57 <br>
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58 <img src="images/lwb_overview.png" alt="Workbench Overview" border="3">
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59 <br>
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60 </p>
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62 <h2> Starting the Workbench </h2>
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64 <p>
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65 To start the LTPDA Workbench, click on the launcher on the LTPDA Launch Bay. Alternatively,
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66 the workbench can be started from the command window by typing:
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67 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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68 >> LTPDAworkbench
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69 </pre></div>
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70 </p>
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71 <p>
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72 You can also get a handle to the workbench so that you can use the programmatic interface. To do that
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73 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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74 >> wb = LTPDAworkbench
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75 </pre></div>
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77 If you loose the variable <tt>wb</tt>, for example, by using the <tt>clear</tt> command, then you can
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78 retrieve a handle to the workbench by doing
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79 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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80 >> wb = getappdata(0, <span class="string">'LTPDAworkbench'</span>);
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81 </pre></div>
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83 More advanced uses of the workbench command interface (such as creating pipelines from LTPDA objects), are
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84 described in <a href="lwb_buildProgram.html">Building pipelines programatically</a>.
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94 <td align="left" width="20"><a href="ltpda_workbench.html"><img src=
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96 "The LTPDA Workbench"></a>&nbsp;</td>
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98 <td align="left">The LTPDA Workbench</td>
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102 <td align="right">Mouse and keyboard actions</td>
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110 <p class="copy">&copy;LTP Team</p>
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111 </body>
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