Introduction to the QuickTools

View Compound QuickTool. A version of the View Compound workbench that can be quickly brought up to sketch molecules and bring them back to a workbench in the form of local objects. It is different than the full View Compound workbench in not having a shelf or tools for manipulating icons. Available in View Database and View Hypothesis workbenches

View Hypothesis QuickTool. A version of the View Hypothesis workbench that can be quickly brought up to sketch hypotheses and bring them back to a workbench in the form of local objects. It is different than the full View Hypothesis workbench in not having a shelf or tools for manipulating icons. Available in View Database and Generate Hypothesis workbenches

How to Use the View Compound QuickTool

The QuickTool workbench is displayed.

Using the View Compound QuickTool provides a quick way to:

• sketch a molecule with the editing tools of the View Compound workbench
• drag a compound from a shelf to the QuickTool to edit, manipulate, do dynamic modeling
• bring edited molecules back into the associated View Hypothesis workbench to be used in constructing a hypothesis. For information about using the View Compound workbench functions contained in the QuickTool, see "How to Use the View Compound Workbench."

  The View Compound QuickTool menus Edit, View, Style, Groups, Tools, Modeling, and Windows, as well as the Toolbox tools, have the same functions as in the full View Compound workbench. The primary differences are that there is no shelf and no icon manipulating functions, and you cannot save a compound. Instead of the Workbench and Data menus there is a QuickTool menu, which contains Workbench Options and Workbench Layout commands, the same as in the standard Workbench menu, plus the following two unique commands:

• Cancel QuickTool - discards all work done in the View Compound QuickTool and dismisses it.

• Return from QuickTool - brings all molecules in the QuickTool workspace back to the parent workbench (where the QuickTool was opened), places a local compound icon on the shelf for each molecule that was in the QuickTool workspace, and closes the QuickTool. The local compounds must be saved to the shelf before they can be used in any other workbench.

  If the QuickTool parent workbench is iconified, any associated View Compound QuickTool also is iconified, and any dialog boxes opened are Canceled (the changes are lost). When the parent workbench is reopened, the View Compound QuickTool is opened on top of it.

The QuickTool workbench is displayed.

Using the View Hypothesis QuickTool provides a quick way to

• construct or modify a hypothesis using all of the editing tools of the View Hypothesis workbench
• select a chemical fragment or function from the Feature Dictionary to work on
• drag a hypothesis from a shelf to the QuickTool to edit, manipulate, or analyze For information about using the View Hypothesis workbench functions contained in the QuickTool, see "How to Use the View Hypothesis Workbench."

  The View Hypothesis QuickTool menus Edit, View, Style, Tools, Constraints, and Windows, as well as the Toolbox tools, have the same functions as in the full View Hypothesis workbench. The primary differences are that there is no shelf and no icon manipulating functions, and you cannot save a hypothesis. Instead of the Workbench and Data menus there is a QuickTool menu, which contains Workbench Options and Workbench Layout commands, the same as in the standard Workbench menu, plus two unique commands:

• Cancel QuickTool discards all work done in the View Hypothesis QuickTool and returns to the Generate Hypothesis workbench
• Return from QuickTool brings the present hypothesis in the QuickTool workspace back to the Generate Hypothesis workbench, and closes the QuickTool If a parent workbench is iconified, any associated View Hypothesis QuickTool also is iconified, and any dialog boxes opened are Canceled (the changes are lost). When the parent workbench is reopened, the View Hypothesis QuickTool is opened on top of it.