Diamond Version 5 User Manual: Working with Diamond

Working With Structure Picture Thumbnails

Preview, resize, and arrange structure picture thumbnails

The structure picture thumbnail view offers:
- Settings Tiles, Content, and Details.
- Grouping of pictures by structure data sets (multiple pictures for multiple structures in a document).
- Sorting options.

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In the previous articles "Picture Edit View and Thumbnails Preview" and "Side-by-side structure picture editing" you have been told the difference between "Picture Edit" view and "picture thumbnail preview".

The easiest way to switch from "Picture Edit" view to "Thumbnails Preview" is to click on the corresponding symbol in the main toolbar:

The command is also available from the main menu: View -> Pictures Viewing -> Thumbnail Preview. To return to Picture Edit view, use the command View -> Pictures Viewing -> Picture Edit View or simply click with the left mouse button into a picture thumbnail.

If you have activated the tab bar, you can easily use the left-most symbol in the picture tab bar:

Note: The following screenshots have been made with version 4 of Diamond.

"Tiles" and "Contents"
This brings you the latest used preview mode, default is "Tiles", but it can also be "Content" or "Details". To switch between "Tiles", "Content", and "Details" use at best the drop-down menu from the main toolbar:

The next screenshot shows the sub-mode "Content, with several informations about the structure pictures each. To get all ten pictures into the screenshot, we expanded the pictures view and collapsed the data pane. This can be done (and undone) with the rightmost symbol in the picture tab bar.

Screenshot of Na3PS4-10-pictures.diamdoc in picture thumbnail preview with sub-mode 'Content'. (Full size image ...)

Details, Grouping, and Sorting
In "Details" mode, every picture thumbnail uses a separate row with detailed picture informations following right beneath the picture in several columns. For the next screenshot, we open another sample file, "PCD-VxOy.diamdoc", and we also make use of the grouping option (which groups multiple pictures of a structure data set each). The drop-down menu also offers several options to sort the thumbnails:

Screenshot of PCD-VxOy.diamdoc in picture thumbnail preview with sub-mode 'Details'. (Full size image ...)

Note: Since there are multiple structure data sets in the Diamond document, Diamond (by default) uses color coding. More about color coding ...

Multiple pictures for multiple structures
The sample file "PCD-PtO2_Pt3O4_RhO2.diamdoc" was created from a Pearson's Crystal Data (PCD) recherche and contains four structure data sets, from:
Muller O., Roy R.: "Formation and stability of the platinum and rhodium oxides at high oxygen pressures and the structures of Pt3O4, b-PtO2 and RhO2", Journal of the Less-Common Metals, 16, 129-146 (1968). (PCD entries #250930, #250928, #1251646, and #250929.) The screenshot shows how Diamond version 4 starts with the file that was originally created by PCD and then edited with Diamond version 3.2. The latest created/edited structure picture was "Some Rh-O spheres expanded with environments" (#250929 = RhO2). The structure table shows the four data sets, the pictures view the last edited picture as well as the residual pictures of the document as thumbnails in the "picture links thumbnail window". (This is open when you used it the last time. By default, you will see link buttons with just the pictures' titles only.)

Changing to picture thumbnail view leads to an overview of nine tiles with the last one highlighted and having a tab on its thumbnail frame:

Note: This "Tiles" sub-mode is the default. Maybe when you played before with Diamond, the last setting is pre-set, so you may see "Contents" or "Details". To switch to "Tiles", use the drop-down menu that is mentioned in this article above.

Grouping of items (this time from the context menu of the pictures view, as shown in the screenshot), results in:

If you want to see the pictures of one data set only, that means suppress the other data sets' pictures, you can choose the left-most symbol in the picture thumbnail view title bar, as highlighted in the following screenshot. There we also switched to structure "1251646" (Pt3O4), which has three pictures.

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