This component provides shortcuts to some frequently used functions. It always stays on top of page and keeps its position no matter how you scroll the page. You can move it around by press and drag on the banner where the greeting message is shown.
By default the panel contains two rows of buttons and a message console. The first row is for panning and zooming. The magnifiers with +/- are for zoom in/out. The size of icon from small to big indicates magnitude of zooming.
The « » signs are for panning. Clicking on it will shift currently displayed region to left/right one screenful at a time. Although in most cases you do panning by dragging on heatmap canvas, this complements two situations where dragging doesn't work:
Clicking buttons in the second row invokes various "apps":
As you interact with the browser, brief words will be printed out in the message console, to tell you whether the operation is on-going or finished. More importantly, it displays warnings about errors. For example, if I hit the "Jump" button without entering a coordinate string or gene name, the message console will blink and role out a message to inform user about the mistake:
You might even see this when you are browsing...
This means the browser has crashed and can only be recovered by reloading the web page. Such trouble could be caused by program bug, data error, or something you did so exotic that the browser couldn't understand. Anyway, I'm working to make Browser quit gracefully when exception occurs, instead of abrupt crash.
If you press on the bottom right corner of message console, you can drag to resize it. The toolbox will be resized as well:
The toolbox also contains a few hidden panels. They will only be displayed when triggered. Such things include:
Last modifed: 12/23/2011