GC Image Users' Guide

Configurations

GC Image has many configuration settings for operations to process and analyze two-dimensional chromatograms. GC Image provides a means of storing and recalling all the configuration settings. Each of the configuration panes of Configure -> Configure Settings is shown with buttons for importing and exporting configuration files:

Import Configuration prompts for the filename of a previously exported processing configuration file. This action applies all of the configuration settings from the imported processing configuration file.
Export Configuration prompts for the filename in which the configuration settings are to be stored. The current configuration settings are then written to the specified file. The user also can indicate whether or not the current blob table configuration, blob set table configuration, color map, and image display dimensions are to be exported.

Figure 1 illustrates the configuration tool, including the buttons for importing and exporting processing configurations.

Figure 1: The configuration tool with buttons for importing and exporting processing configurations.

Clicking the Export Configuration button presents a popup for designating the filename and for indicating whether or not the blob table configuration, blob set table configuration, color map, and image display dimensions are to be exported.

Figure 2: The Export Configuration popup.

The parameter dialog for Import Image allows use of processing configuration files and the specification of a sequence of processing steps at the time that raw data is imported. Figure 3 illustrates the Import Image parameter dialog. The user can choose to apply a specified processing configuration file. Also, the user can choose to have phase shift, background removal, blob detection, template matching with a specified template, and save the blob table to a specified file, save the image, and exit immediately upon completion. This interface allows much quicker routine processing of imported images than is possible performing each action interactively.

Figure 3: The Import dialog with optional checkboxes for configuration and processing.

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