Fast-Save Lists

If you find that you want to quickly, and repeatedly, save images with a standard set of file names, you can set up "fast-save lists", so you can save the current loaded image with a single mouse click. When you do a fast-save, the image is saved with a fixed name, a fixed (chosen) image format, and with the same type of pixel values, and in the same folder as the current loaded image.

You can set up multiple separate lists of file names to use, so that that you can work on multiple projects, each with their own set of "standard" file names.

To set a fast-save file name list, select "Manage Fast Save Lists ..." from the "File" menu: Selecting Manage Fast Save Lists from the file menu

This will bring up a dialog to create and edit fast-save file lists:

Manage fast save lists Dialog

To create a new list of fast-save file name for a project, select Button to create a new save list. This will bring up another dialog for you to enter a name for the fast-save list (not the name of an individual file name within the list):

Setting the name of the fast save list

In this example, we have given the list the name of the project where we will be using a particular list of file names - the project is called "Study 0001". Click the The ok button button. This will bring up a dialog to enter the individual file names that will be used in your fast-save list, and select the file format:

Creating the file names in the fast save list

In the example above, two file names have already been added (Echo1 and Echo2) with images to be saved in the NIFTI-1 format. A third one is about to be added (Post-Gd, stored in UNC format) using the Adding a file name to the fast save list button.

You can reorder the file names in your list using the Move an item up the list and Move an item down the list buttons, and you can remove file names from the list using the Delete an item from the list button. When you have added all the file names for your project, click the Finish up the Fast Save list button to go back to the "Manage Fast-Save Lists" dialog, which will now show the fast-save list you have just created:

Manage the fast save list

You can now: create further lists; edit the existing lists (by selecting a list and clicking on the Edit the fast save list button); or delete the selected list by clicking on Delete a selected item from the fast save list.

To use a fast-save list, select the list and the click the Use the selected fast save list button. This will close the dialog, and put the list of file names in the last-save list into Jim's "File" menu, as shown below for the fast-save list just created:

A fast save list in the File menu

Now, when you have an image loaded in the display, you can save it using one of the file names in your fast-save list just by selecting that file name from the "File" menu.

To stop using a fast-save list, select "Manage Fast Save Lists ..." from the "File" menu, then select the list called "None", which is an empty un-editable list and press the Use the selected fast save list button.

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