File Selection Window
Interactive figure window can be used to
select a directory, file or files for performing the group ICA. The steps
involved are explained below where the button names are shown in italic for your
convenience.
Figure 1: File selection window

- Directory text box
- Shows the current directory or you can edit the text box. When enter key
is pressed the sub-folders are displayed on the left list box and also the
files or folders are displayed on the right list box.
- Directory History
- Shows the history of the directories recently visited in the MATLAB along
with the path for the GIFT. Option is provided in 'icatb_defaults.m' file to
store the directories where data is located. If you wish not to store the
information leave the default of the variable STORE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION as
'No'. When the variable is changed to 'Yes' the directories entered in the curly
brackets are stored in the figure window.
- Back
-
Returns to the previous folder in the same drive.
- Filter
- Resets the filter text box to *.
- Filter text box
- Filters files based on the text entered. If you want to list files with
different patterns, separate them with semi-colon as delimiter.
- File numbers text box
- Text box used to enter the file numbers for a 4D Nifti file.
- Drives
- Shows the drives available for the Windows operating system. For other operating systems the root directory is displayed.
- Sub-folders list box
- Sub-folders are shown in the left list box.
- Files or sub-folders list box
- Files in the current directory are shown in the right list box with the
number of files listed in square brackets like [1:20] where 20 refers to the
number of files for that prefix. In case of directory selection, sub-folders
in the current directory will be displayed.
- Ed
- Button used to edit the files
- Reset
- Refreshes the drives in the Windows operating system and deselects all the
files previously selected.
- Expand
- By default files are shown in prefix mode. Expand button is used to
list files with their original names.
- Select-All
- Selects all the files in the current working directory depending on the
filter specified.
- OK
- Once the entries on the right list box are selected, press
OK to select the entries.
Note: When a directory or a ICA parameter file is to be selected, the
right list box mode is set to inactive after the first selection. In order to
select a different file or directory Reset button should be used.