8.5 Use of "Sessions"
A very useful feature of NEURON 3.0
is the ability to save a group of
panels and plot windows organized to investigate a particular
aspect of the function of a nerve cell or network. After one has set up
and arranged a group of graph windows and panels to explore such
questions, one may want to save this arrangement for future recall.
This is achieved conveniently by saving a "session" of panels and plot
windows selected in the File and Print manager panel. It is often useful
to have several sessions saved for a particular application. For
example, I have found, when working with a stylized motoneuron, that
it is useful to have sessions organized around experimental protocols
such as:
- voltage clamp of the soma,
- current clamp of the soma,
- antidromic impulse invasion,
- orthodromic impulse generation.
Each session saved had variable-vs-space plots as well as variable-vs-
time plots. Saving sessions also allow one to store differing parameter
sets appropriate for a variety of simulated experiments on nerve cells.
Saving and Recalling sessions
1) Select the desired panels and graph windows by clicking on
them in the File Manager Panel. Their size and location on the screen
will be preserved and reproduced on "Retrieve". (Their location on the
Page icon is of no consequence). Sessions may be saved by pressing
"Sessions" button and then choosing either the "Save selected" or "Save all"
Sessions may be Retrieved by pressing first the "Sessions"
button and then the "Retrieve" button.
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