interaction with SALOME tool components (both CORBA and standalone),
resource management, viewers and selection handling,
exception and signals processing. This approach brings to the top
-Salome multi-desktop dockable-windowed user interface.
+Salome single-desktop dockable-windowed user interface.
\n All Graphical User Interfaces of standard modules have plug-in
structure, i.e. each module is placed in a dynamic library which is
loaded on demand. So, all modules add their own menu items, buttons
<ul>
<li>\b File menu corresponds to \subpage study_management_page "Study management" functionalities
-(creation, saving, loading, editing studies, etc.).</li>
+(creation, saving, loading, editing studies, connecting, disconnecting, etc.).</li>
<li>\b Edit menu gives access to <b> Copy/Paste</b> allowing to paste the
objects from one study into the other. The availability of this
functionality depends on the module and the nature of an operation or
\page salome_desktop_page SALOME desktop
-<b>Multi-Desktop Approach</b> used in Salome means that there is a separate Desktop
-for each Study and all windows connected to the same Study (viewers, dockable
+<b>Single-Desktop Approach</b> used in Salome means that there is one Desktop
+for Study and all windows connected to the Study (viewers, dockable
windows, etc.) are placed in one container.
-This approach positively differs from the classic multi document interface
-if many windows are used, i.e. when one document contains a lot of
-viewers, dialogs, etc. Each desktop also has its own menu and toolbar.
The main SALOME Desktop consists of the following sections and toolbars:
presentation (in the Object Browser). The study is composed of Data
Object instances, united in a tree-like structure.
-All operations with studies are available from the \b File menu.
+As soon as you have opened SALOME desktop, you don't see active study.
+But you can operate with enabled Python console, for example to load script. Also some operations are available from the \b File menu without study:
+
+\image html menu_file.png
+
+If you create, load or connect to study, then additional operations with study will be available from the \b File menu.
\image html studymanagement.png
\b New - creates a new study. The study will be created
-with default name \b Study1. It is possible to create
-several studies, each accessible from the task bar.
+with default name \b Study1. To create another study you should close the current one.
\b Open - allows to open an existing study by browsing for it in a
standard Search File dialog box, choosing the required
*.hdf file and clicking \b Open button.
-\b Reopen - reloads the current study from the *.hdf file. This menu command
-can be used to reverse the study to the latest saved state.
-
-\b Connect - allows to open an unloaded study.
-\image html loadstudy2.png
-Select one of the studies, which has been previously
-created and unloaded and click \b Ok button.
-
-\note SALOME is a multi-study platform. It means that simultaneously you can
-work with several studies.
-
-\b Close - closes the current study, alternatively it is
-possible to click on the cross in the upper right corner of the study window.
-
-\note If the study has not been previously saved, this option will
-call the following dialog box with several options:
+\b Reopen - reloads the current study from the associated *.hdf file. This menu command can be used to reverse the study to the latest saved state.
-\image html closestudy.png
-
-Here, \b Unload option unloads the current study from the SALOME
-Desktop. It can be reloaded in the same working session, but if you quit the SALOME application, all changes
-in the unloaded study will be lost.
+\note SALOME is a single-study platform. It means that simultaneously you can
+work with one study only.
\b Save - saves the current study. Saving a study you also save its layout, i.e. all positions and sizes
of dockable windows. It means that the difference in settings of the
\b Save \b as - allows to save the current study with a new name. Input a new name for the study in the standard
Search File dialog box and click \b Save button.
+\b Close - closes the current study, alternatively it is
+possible to click on the cross in the upper right corner of the study window.
+
+\note If the study has not been previously saved, this option will
+call the following dialog box with several options:
+
+\image html closestudy.png
+
+\b Connect - allows to open an unloaded or created outside GUI study.
+
+\note Connect is available only if there is some study on data server.
+
+\b Disconnect - unloads the current study from the SALOME
+Desktop. It can be reloaded in the same working session, but if you quit the SALOME application, all changes in the unloaded study will be lost.
+
+\note If the study has not been previously saved, this option will
+call the following dialog box with several options:
+
+\image html disconnect_study.png
+
<b>Dump study</b> - allows to Dump a SALOME Study in one or several
Python scripts. The following dialog box allows to browse for the location and
define the name for a Python file.
