Menus

Every job window in the Csound Shell contains the same set of menus (albeit with slightly different shortcuts).

The Csound Menu

Application Menu

The Csound menu contains two items:

Environment...
Selecting this item shows resp. activates the environment window.
About...
Selecting this item shows some highly interesting information about the Csound Shell.

The File Menu

File Menu

The File menu offers operations that create new jobs, open files containing saved jobs, close job windows, save jobs, and quit the Csound Shell.

New Synthesis
Creates a new, empty synthesis job. In a Synthesis window, this item is associated with the Command-N shortcut.
New HF Analysis
Creates a new, empty heterodyne filter analysis job. In an HF analysis window, this item is associated with the Command-N shortcut.
New LP Analysis
Creates a new, empty linear predictive analysis job. In an LP Analysis window, this item is associated with the Command-N shortcut.
New PV Analysis
Creates a new, empty short-time Fourier analysis job. In a PV Analysis window, this item is associated with the Command-N shortcut.
New CV Analysis
Creates a new, empty Fourier analysis job. In a CV Analysis window, this item is associated with the Command-N shortcut.
Open...
Displays a file selection dialog. After you select a saved Csound job file, it is opened and displayed in a new window.
Close
Closes the window in which you selected the menu item. If you made any changes and did not save them into a file, you will be prompted and given the choice of discarding the changes, aborting the Close operation, or saving the changes (the latter option is only available when the window has an associated file).
Save
Saves the current settings into the file associated with the window. This item is only available when there is such a file.
Save As...
Displays a file selection dialog. After you select a directory and file name, the current job is written into the file you indicated.
Quit
Closes all open windows (after checking for unsaved changes, as described under Close).