Projects allow SHAZAM to coordinate the items used in analysis together. Using the ‘Project Menu’ you may open, save or create new projects. The project file (*.shp) contains links to each of the files you have added, as well as information used internally by SHAZAM about each item. This means that changes to the project do not in any way affect the files themselves i.e. deleting a file from a project does not delete it from the disk.

Using a project is optional however once items are added to a project a number of useful additional features become available. In particular the following items are worthy of note:

• Data files created or imported into SHAZAM may be marked as being for ‘Autoload’. A data file marked in this way appears in the project viewer in the folder marked ‘Data’ with a red dot on its icon (see Figure above). Then if a command file is executed using the command editor, the data is automatically read into SHAZAM removing the need for READ statements.
• Data files created by SHAZAM using the WRITE statement appear in the project viewer the instant they are created. Due to the threaded nature of this edition, these may be viewed even if the command file is still executing.
• Graphs may be edited and many of their features modified using the ‘Properties’ dialog found under the ‘Graph’ menu. This feature is only enabled once a graph has been added to a project. This is so that the graph added to the project is a copy and that changes made to the graph are not affected should the command file be rerun.
• Open items or disk files may be added to the project using the two ‘Add Item to Project’ options on the ‘Project’ menu or the ‘Add to Project’ button on the toolbar. Selecting any item and pressing the delete key will delete it from a project.

  
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