Workspace

An important part of the Dragonfly user interface is the concept of workspaces. A workspace is a particular layout of the tool and properties panels, which is remembered on exit and restored at startup. Once a useful layout of the available panels is chosen, Dragonfly will always look the same. You can create and save custom workspaces by docking, undocking, and removing panels (see Customizing the Workspace).

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… The left side of the Dragonfly interface is the default location for different tool panels, such as Layout, Annotate, Scene's Views Properties, and Window Leveling (see Tool Panels), as well as tools used for segmentation tasks (see Segment Tools).

Tools panels can also be placed at the top of the middle section.

Middle… 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).

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… 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).

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 Sessions for more information about saving and loading sessions).
Preferences	Open the Preferences dialog (see Setting Preferences for information about setting the application preferences).