| iTool User's Guide: Introducing the IDL iTools |

## Using This Guide

The iTool User Guide can show you important iTool functionality such as how to start the iTools, how to import data into an iTool, how to export data out of an iTool, the general layout of the iTools, and how to perform common iTool tasks.

This User Guide is organized to help you make the most of the IDL iTools. The User Guide contains the following chapters:

- Importing and Exporting Data — This chapter introduces you to bringing data into the iTools as well as exporting data.

- Visualizations — This chapter introduces what an iTool visualization is and how to work with visualizations.

- Manipulating the Display — This chapter describes the various ways that you can manipulate your displays within an iTool.

- Adding Annotations — This chapter describes the various types of annotations available in iTools and how to work with them.

- Property Sheets and Browsers — This chapter describes the property sheets and browsers that are common to all iTools.

- Common Operations — Many iTool operations are common to each tool. These operations are described in this chapter.

- Working with Macros — This chapter describes macros in iTools and how they are created and used.

- Working with Styles — This chapter describes iTool styles and how to create and work with them.

- Working with Images — This chapter describes the iImage tool and gives you insight into unique image visualization and manipulation tasks.

- Working with Surfaces — This chapter describes the iSurface tool and gives you insight into unique surfacing and surface manipulation tasks.

- Working with Contours — This chapter describes the iContour tool and gives you insight into unique contouring and contour manipulation tasks.

- Working with Plots — This chapter describes the iPlot tool and gives you insight into unique plotting and plot manipulation tasks.

- Working with Volumes — This chapter describes the iVolume tool and gives you insight into unique volume visualization and volume manipulation tasks.

- Working with Maps — This chapter describes the iMap tool and gives you insight into unique mapping and map manipulation tasks.

- Working with Vectors — This chapter describes the iVector tool and gives you insight into unique vector and vector manipulation tasks.

- iTools Interface Reference — This appendix gives you a detailed look at the iTool interface and its components.

- Property Controls — This appendix describes the iTool controls used to set properties in the iTool property sheets.

- Operations Properties — This appendix describes the properties of the iTools found in the Operations Browser of each iTool.

- Visualization Properties — This appendix describes the properties of the iTools found in the Visualization Browser of each iTool.

IDL Online Help (March 01, 2006)