Hi Warren,
Welcome to PixInsight Forum.
-Is there a way to save a workspace?
Project functionality is being implemented right now. A first version will be released somewhere during the current 1.6 cycle. A PixInsight project will store the exact state of the whole PixInsight platform: from images with their processing histories, to the states of all process interfaces, to configuration settings, icons, workspaces, etc. This is a rather complex task but we already have given important steps to accomplish it.
how can one preserve specific setting within a panel
As you probably have already read somewhere, PixInsight is an object-oriented platform. Among other things, this means that processes are independent objects, not tied to any particular image or graphical interface. A process interface (panel) is merely one of the many tools available to specify the parameters of a process, but the interface must not be confused with the process itself.
A process is similar to a
pattern in PixInsight: it describes all the parameters and the behavior of a specific task, in formal terms. For example, the UnsharpMask process defines the filter size, filtering amount, deringing thresholds and other parameters necessary to perform the unsharp mask filtering task. Then you can create any number of
process instances, all of them pertaining to the UnsharpMask process, but each of them with its own parameters. Each process instance is a living object that you can create, destroy, store, retrieve, execute, reuse in a different project, etc.
There are several ways to create process instances. The easiest way is by encapsulating them into
icons. A process icon is a small graphical element that lives on a workspace. You can create any number of icons and save them as a special file in XML format (.xpsm files). Then you can load a xpsm file from your hard disk and start playing with the icons and the instances they transport.
In a nutshell:
- Drag one of the blue triangular buttons (bottom left corner, most process interfaces) to the workspace to create an icon.
- Double-click a process icon to open its associated interface and load it with the corresponding parameters.
- Right-click on the workspace and select the different options available under the Process Icons submenu. The same options are available from the Process > Process Icons main menu item.
- You can create
libraries of icons that you can reuse in your imaging projects. Many PixInsight users are already doing this. The procedure that has been described by Bud is an example (see Harry's post).
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Watch Harry's videos, if you haven't already done it!
Congrats to the Pteam, the Core UI is very beautiful.
Thanks! Wait to see what I have prepared for the GUI in the short term
I am thus far most impressed w/ HDRWT
HDRWT is indeed one of our most advanced implementations. The HDRWT algorithm has been created by Vicent Peris, one of the
souls of PixInsight. We have much more nice and cool things; you'll be discovering them as you continue using PixInsight.
