Tetrad Menubar


The main menu bar in Tetrad lets you manage Tetrad sessions, lets you perform some editing operations on the current session, and gives you access to the help functionality (this), among other things. It looks like this:

The function of each item in each menu is described below. If you were looking for help for popup menus for boxes, see Popup Menus.

 

The File Menu

Here's what each item does in the File menu.

In using Tetrad you will put together a sequence of boxes connected by flowchart arrows. (See How to Build a Session.) Some sequences are so commonly used, that Tetrad will insert the entire sequence for you--boxes and arrows--in the workbench all at once.

In addition, there are several shortcut items to help you create flowcharts of sessions nodes on the workbench. The Load Data/Simulate buttons puts a Data node on the workbench. If you double click this and select Loaded Data you will be able to load data usign the File menu in that box. If you select Simulation, you will be able to select a model type and simulate random data. The Search item puts a Data box on the workbench connected to a Search box. If you double click the Data box you will be able to load or simulate data, as above, and then if you double click the Search box, you will be able to search over this data for a suitable model or class of models. The easiest way to see what these menu items do is to try them. See Using Templates for more details.

The Edit Menu

Here's what each item does in the Edit Menu.

 

The Window Menu


Tetrad can keep multiple sessions open at once, but only one workbench is visible at a time. "Sessions" lists all of your open sessions and lets you switch to the workbench of whichever session you want. Your sessions are automatically given a name, e.g., "Untitled1.tet" unless you have saved them with a name.

 

The Logging Menu


Tetrad is able to do logging on search algorithms and other components. This menu lets you choose where to put the logs, what the file prefix should be for the logs (they will be sequentially numbered), and lets you start and stop logging. Each time you start logging, a new log file will be created, and logging will continue until you stop logging.

The Help Menu


The items listed do the following.