Interface

TkSurfer consists of two windows. The Display Window displays data. The Tools Window has toolbars, a menu bar, and display areas for the cursor and mouse location.

Display Window

attachment:tksurfer_display.jpg

Here is a look at the Display window. From looking in the title bar, you can see that the subject is called bert-brf. Here we see an inflated hemisphere surface with a grayscale curvature overlay and a colored functional overlay.

Tools Window

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The menu bar at the top of the Tools Window contains four menus. The File menu is for loading and unloading data and for saving changes. The Edit menu contains an undo item and selection utilities. The View menu contains options for specifying what data are displayed and configuring how these data are displayed. The Tools menu contains commands and utilities for working on data.

The top toolbar contains buttons for various cutting, drawing, and filling actions. Beneath that are three navigation panes used to rotate, translate, and zoom the view of the surface.

Main Toolbar

attachment:icon_redraw.gif	Redraw the screen	attachment:icon_cursor_save.gif	Save the cursor position	attachment:icon_cursor_goto.gif	Load the cursor position
attachment:icon_surface_main.gif	Show the main surface	attachment:icon_surface_inflated.gif	Show the inflated surface	attachment:icon_surface_white.gif	Show the white surface
attachment:icon_surface_pial.gif	Show the pial surface	attachment:icon_surface_original.gif	Show the orig(inal) surface	attachment:icon_curv.gif	Show the curvature
attachment:icon_overlay.gif	Show the overlay	attachment:icon_color_scalebar.gif	Show the overlay color scale bar	attachment:icon_label_off.gif	Show the labels
attachment:icon_label_filled.gif	Show the labels as filled shapes	attachment:icon_label_outline.gif	How the labels as outlined shapes

Tools Toobar

attachment:icon_cut_line.gif	Make a cutting line	attachment:icon_cut_closed_line.gif	Make a closed cutting line	attachment:icon_cut_plane.gif	Make a cutting plane
attachment:icon_cut_area.gif	Cut a contiguous area	attachment:icon_cut_clear.gif	Clear all cuts	attachment:icon_draw_line.gif	Draw a path
attachment:icon_draw_line_closed.gif	Draw a closed path	attachment:icon_fill_label.gif	Show the fill label dialog box	attachment:icon_erase_line.gif	Erase the current line
attachment:icon_marked_to_label.gif	Make a label out of marked vertices	attachment:icon_label_to_marked.gif	Mark the vertices in the current label	attachment:icon_erase_label.gif	Erase the current label
attachment:icon_color_label.gif	Change the color of the current label

Navigation Toolbar

attachment:icon_home.gif	Set the camera to the home position
attachment:icon_arrow_rot_x_pos.gif attachment:icon_arrow_rot_z_neg.gif attachment:icon_arrow_rot_y_neg.gif attachment:icon_arrow_rot_x_neg.gif attachment:icon_arrow_rot_y_pos.gif attachment:icon_arrow_rot_z_pos.gif	Rotate the view
attachment:icon_arrow_left.gif attachment:icon_arrow_down.gif attachment:icon_arrow_up.gif attachment:icon_arrow_right.gif	Translate or pan the view
attachment:icon_zoom_out.gif attachment:icon_zoom_in.gif	Zoom the view

Beneath that is an area divided into halves. Each half displays information about the cursor (left half) or mouse location (right half). This area expands downwards are more data types are loaded and have information that need displaying. You can go directly to a vertex index by typing into the field labeled Vertex Index underneath the Cursor area.

The overlay information lines have editable fields that allow you to rename the overlays layers. Additionally, the button next to each one will switch to that layer.