Workspace Elements

The Dragonfly workspace consists of the following major sections:

Menu bar… The Menu bar is composed of items to import data, save sessions, and access image processing and analysis tools (see Menu Bar).

Left sidebar… The left sidebar is the default location for the different tools panels, such as Layout, Annotate, Scene's Views Properties, and Window Leveling (see Tools Panels), as well as tools used for segmentation tasks (see Segmentation).

Tools panels can be moved to the top of the middle section or to the right sidebar (see Customizing the Workspace).

Scenes… The large middle section of the Dragonfly interface contains the scenes in which image files, meshes, regions of interest, and other objects can be displayed (see Scenes and Views).

A scene can be as simple as a single view of image data or it can contain additional objects, such as annotations, regions of interest, and meshes. A scene can also be divided into multiple views, or segments, that display multi-planar reformats or a 3D view of the objects contained in the scene (see Scenes and Views).

The bottom area within the middle section is the default location for additional panels, such as the Movie Maker (see Working with the Movie Maker), the Python Console (see Python Console), and the Action Log Viewer (see Action Log Viewer).

Right sidebar… The right side of the Dragonfly interface is the default location for the Data Properties and Settings panel, which provides information and settings for selected objects. Additional panels for processing objects, such as the Dataset Cropper, Dataset Sampler, and Convert Dataset, can also be accessed here (see Data Properties and Settings Panel). The right side also contains the Measurement Inspector, which lets you plot the statistical properties of multi-ROI, scalar meshes, and graphs on a histogram and then highlight selected ranges in the 2D and 3D views of the object.

Status bar… The Status bar docked at the bottom of the workspace indicates the currently selected state and includes controls for creating a new session and opening the Preference dialog.

Status bar options

	Description
Current state	Indicates the currently selected state. Some states are also indicated by the cursor style.
New Session	Creates a new session (see Working with Sessions for more information about saving and loading sessions).
Preferences	Open the Preferences dialog (see Setting Preferences for information about setting the application preferences).