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User interface
==============

When you open |artist|, you will see its main window (:numref:`guiMainWindow`) with the following areas.

* **Menu bar**, used to access detailed settings and commands.
* **Toolbar**, used to access the most commonly used functions and viewer settings.
* **Parameter panel**, used to control the current model parameters for the scene, X-ray source and detector.
* **Virtual scene**, a 3D scene view of the radiographic setup.
* **Docking area**, integrates additional program windows and modules. By default, the **Image Viewer** showing the simulated radiograph is placed here.
* **Status bar** displays what's currently going on.

:numref:`guiMainWindow` shows the default view of the user interface. The scene already contains two items: source and detector. The three main areas (parameter panel, virtual scene, docking area) can be scaled by clicking and dragging the edges of the respective areas.

.. _guiMainWindow:
.. figure:: pictures/gui-main-window.png
    :alt: aRTist main window
    :width: 100%

    aRTist main window.



.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: User interface elements:

   gui-menu-bar
   gui-scene
   gui-setup
   gui-source
   gui-scattering
   gui-detector