Managing Windows

You can save the current window layouts and screen configurations to a session file. In the future, apply those settings to an open project to quickly set the layout to the same as those in the session file. Read more.

Display your seismic in a new window or, if you already have a seismic window open, display your seismic in the existing window. Displaying seismic in an existing window allows you reuse parameter settings such as scale, time window, gain, etc. This helps to make quick comparisons between seismic lines.

Displaying Seismic in a New Window

Select one of the following options from the Map Selection toolbar:

Icon	Hot-key	Description
	<l>	Select Any Line
	<2>	Select a 2D Line
	<i> <x>	Select a 3D In-line or Xline
	<w>	Select a Well-spot or Well Synthetic
	<L>	Select From List Located on the map Menu Bar under Select | From List

Left click on the seismic line you wish to display. A new seismic window will open. This window will have all the default parameter settings. Set the default parameter settings in the Display Mode tab of the Seismic Preferences dialog box.

You can copy and paste parameter settings from another seismic window by using the Copy and Paste Parameters function.

After you have set your window display parameters, you may wish to reuse these parameters to view other seismic lines. This helps to make quick comparisons between seismic lines.

Displaying a seismic line in an existing window replaces the contents of the window with the new seismic, but keeps all display parameters the same. We can do this by dragging and dropping the new line into the seismic window, as described below.

Displaying Seismic in an Existing Window:

Select an option from the Map Selection toolbar. View image

Icon	Hot-key	Description
	<l>	Select Any Line
	<2>	Select a 2D Line
	<i> <x>	Select a 3D In-line or Xline
	<w>	Select a Well-spot or Well Synthetic
	<L>	Select From List Located on the map Menu Bar under Select | From List

Highlight your seismic line. Click and hold the left mouse button. A small box with wiggle traces will appear. Without releasing the mouse button, drag and drop this box into an existing seismic window. The line will have the same display mode, gain adjustments, scale, and any other display parameters you have set for the window.

You can quickly display your map and seismic windows side-by-side as follows:

Select the Tile Windows Across Desktop icon from the Application toolbar.

To see more than one map window, select the Open Map for Selected Project icon from the Application toolbar.

Toolbars and hot-keys are all specific to the map or seismic window, depending on which window is active. Active windows have blue title bars; inactive windows have grey title bars. By default, as you move your cursor around your screen, the window under the cursor automatically becomes the active window.

With the cursor overtop of window if you select a hotkey, the window will automatically become active.

This option can be deactivated by disabling the Auto Activate Window With hot-keys preference in Global Preferences.

When the Auto Activate Window With hot-key is disabled, you will need to click into a window to make it the active window.

Resize the WinPICS Application toolbar, Map, and Seismic windows using standard Windows commands. Place your cursor on the frame of the window so that an arrow appears.

Left-click and, without releasing the mouse button, drag the cursor to stretch and squeeze the window. Release the mouse button.

Move the WinPICSApplication Toolbar, Map, and Seismic windows using standard Windows commands.

Left-click on the title bar on the window and, without releasing the mouse button, drag the cursor to move the window to a new position. Release the left mouse button.

You can move the Layer Manager pane to a more convenient location in your Map window. Follow these steps:

1. Click and hold on the title bar at the top of the Layer Manager pane. The bar turns orange.
2. Drag the pane to the desired location in the Map window. As you move the pane to the edge of the window, WinPICS displays anchor symbols that point left, right, up, or down. View image

3. Still holding the button down, move your mouse over the anchor symbol (left, right, up, or down). View image

4. Release the button to dock the pane in the new location. View image

There are three ways to scroll through map and seismic windows:

• Standard scroll bars- As in all standard Windows applications, you can use scroll bars to move within a window. Left click the slider on the scroll bar and, without releasing the mouse button, drag the slider up and down. The display is dynamically updated as you scroll.
• Middle mouse button scrolling – Hold the middle mouse button down while dragging the mouse to move the map or seismic data in any direction. If you have a two-button mouse, you can simulate a three-button mouse by holding down the <Ctrl> key on your keyboard while you click the right mouse button. The display is dynamically updated as you scroll.
• Coordinate scrolling – Use coordinate scrolling to scroll without dynamically updating the display. This is particularly useful where you are tightly zoomed in on a large map area or long seismic line as dynamic updates can be quite slow. In either the map or seismic window, hold the <Shift> key on your keyboard while using the scroll bars or middle mouse button to scroll. As you scroll, the UTMUniversal Transverse Mercator coordinates of your position are displayed in the lower right-hand corner of the main WinPICS window. The map is updated when you release either the middle mouse button or the <Shift> key.

Refresh your Map window or Seismic window by pressing <!> on your keyboard.

Click the <X> button in the upper right-hand corner of the window to close individual windows, such as the Map and Seismic windows.

• Closing the last map window for a project automatically closes the project, but keeps WinPICS running.