General Overview.

  The AUTO97 graphical user interface (GUI) is a tool for creating and editing equations-files and constants-files; see Section 3.1 for a description of these files. The GUI can also be used to run AUTO and to manipulate and plot output-files and data-files; see Section 3.5 for corresponding commands. To use the GUI for a new equation, change to an empty work directory. For an existing equations-file, change to its directory. (Do not activate the GUI in the directory auto/97 or in any of its subdirectories.) Then type

@auto,

or its abbreviation @a. Here we assume that the AUTO aliases have been activated; see Section 1.1. The GUI includes a window for editing the equations-file, and four groups of buttons, namely, the Menu Bar at the top of the GUI, the Define Constants-buttons at the center-left, the Load Constants-buttons at the lower left, and the Stop- and Exit-buttons.

Note :  Most GUI buttons are activated by point-and-click action with the left mouse button. If a beep sound results then the right mouse button must be used.

• The Menu bar.
• The Define-Constants-buttons.
• The Load-Constants-buttons.
• The Stop- and Exit-buttons.