RE: Doubts About WinMDI software

You should have found the answer below in the archive:

Perhaps a few practical hints on how to drag and drop might help: 
Open winmdi
Open file manager

Tile the two programs (in most cases, tiling is most useful when only 2
windows are tiled. But what if you have more than 2 open windows, but
you only want to tile 2 of them Press Ctrl + click each button on the
taskbar to select it, right-click one of the selected buttons, then
click the appropriate item from the context menu. When the windows are
tiled, you can drag the borders of the windows to change their sizes.)


Under Microsoft windows you locate your files using file manager
revealing the full length of your file name.
Mark the file of interest by pointing at it with the cursor, hold the
left mouse button and drag it over your winmdi plot.
Let go of the left mouse button and the data will be displayed.

If you have not tiled the display and you have the file manager on full
screen you drag your files over the WINMDI icon in the taskbar and wait
a bit for it to open the window and drop it then.

To get a functional display or the file list dialog mentioned below you
need to have opened one file originally via the short file name in DOS
so you have built up a valid plot.

If you import a sequence of files into the list dialog they should
appear in the same order as if sorted by filename, but you can always
verify that by dragging a single file across.


Have fun

Gerhard


-----Original Message-----
From: Nebe-Von-Caron, G [mailto:g.nebe-von-caron@unipath.com] 
Sent: 09 September 2005 17:00
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: RE: [ Long file name conversion ]


If you drag and drop the files into the software you do not need to
worry about that anyhow. If you have a number of displays that you want
to update altogether you drag and drop the file in the file list window
( ctrl-L) and then update all plots (alt page-down) but try to have only
one file name in the file list.

The software just can't handle the long file names.

Regards

Gerhard
-----Original Message-----
From: Gert De Block [mailto:Gert.DeBlock@az.vub.ac.be] 
Sent: 26 August 2005 16:21
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: [ Long file name conversion ]


Hey somebody out there,



For some years I use the WinMDI software. Mostly nothing but nice.

I still have a question about an esthetical annoyance. I save my data
(FCS-files) to a memory stick, copy it to my hard disk from which I open
the files with WinMDI.

But in the WinMDI-menu 'Open Dotplot'  I see the strangest characters in
the names of folders or even names of files.

For instance : a file which was recorded on the FACS Canto was named
'trial1 + CD49f-PE' (as well as on memory stick and hard disk) appeared
as 'TRIAL~62.FCS' in that 'Open dotplot' menu. Another example : 'Trial
1 eluate' was changed into 'TRIAL~YH.FCS'
I sometimes even see dollarsymbols in the filenames.

In fact it is not that big problem since sequence of read samples keeps
remained but it would be nicer if the original given names could be
maintained.

Any suggestions or help?


Thank you veruy much of course,
gert


Gert De Block
VUB  Faculteit Geneeskunde & Farmacie
Navorsing Embryologie/Genetica
Laarbeeklaan 101
1090 Brussel
Tel.02/477.46.44
Fax.02/477.46.35
Private: gert.deblock@pandora.be



-----Original Message-----
From: Katherina Garcia Garcia [mailto:kgargar@upo.es] 
Sent: 01 December 2005 10:22
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: Doubts About WinMDI software



     Hi: 

I have some doubts about WinMDI. In our laboratory we have a FACSAria
and the FACSDiva software. But we can only use this program in the
cytometer computer. In others computers we use WinMDI to analize
cytometry´s data.

I have a problem: I record data from the FACSDiva in FCS 2.0 format.
When I look at them in the WinMDI the name of the experiments and the
name of each specimen or tube change (the names are not complete or
appears rare symbols). Because of this we can´t know wich experiment or
sample	we want to display in the WinMDI. This information appears when
we choose a sample and display Stats view, but maybe it is not the
sample I am interested and I have to start again, choose another sample
and...

I hope you can help me. Maybe I have to change the  type of letter (we
use Arial to name the experiments) or name the experiments with only 3
characters. I don´t know....

Thanks a lot.

Sorry about my english, I´m spanish speaker.


Katherina García García
Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
Seville, Spain
kgargar@upo.es