Multiple Views of One Signal Document

When you open a file, SE invokes a view window and places a representation of the entire signal document in that window. In addition to this initial view window, SE lets you create any number of views of a given open signal document. Each view can be scrolled, zoomed, and resized independently of the other views.

No matter how many views that you have open, it is important to realize that all of them refer to the same underlying signal document. If you change the data in one representation by a cut, paste, or delete, this data change is reflected in every view window.

In order to create a new view window, select the New Viewer Window item under the Windows menu or type Command-N. This creates a view window called EMPTY VIEWER. There are three ways to insert a signal document into an empty viewer.

Method 1. Invoke the Document Inspector (Command-D), which shows a list of open signal documents. Select a signal document by clicking on its name. This puts the name of the selected signal document next to an icon in the top left corner of the Document Inspector. Select the icon and move the icon across the screen to the empty viewer. Release the mouse, which drops the signal document into the viewer. 

Method 2. Copy a portion of an open document (Command-c) and move the mouse to the EMPTY VIEWER window. Paste the portion into the window (Command-v).

Method 3. Drag a sig file icon from the NeXT Workspace Manager into an EMPTY VIEWER window. The border of the viewer highlights to indicate that it accepts the signal document. You can also drag NeXT snd files, which creates a new untitled signal document from the snd file before placing it into a viewer.

*Note: Although you can run multiple instances of SE at the same time, at present, interapplication pasteboard editing does not work between these instances. That is, you cannot copy signal data from one running instance of SE to another running instance of SE.