Menus

File menu

• New field makes a new field window. If a score window is the front most window among the windows of SBEAT except dialog windows, namely the top window, and it has a primary selected bar, the new field window includes one individual of the selected bar. If a genome editor is the top window, the new field window includes one individual of the genome just edited.
• New score makes a new score window. If the top window is a field window, it contains the score sequentially arranged with the individuals. If the top window is a genome editor, it contains only one bar of edited genome. It is initialized with empty score if the top window is neither a field window nor a genome editor.
• Open ... displays a file selection dialog to choose a file to be opened. If the file type is Gene or Score, SBEAT opens new field window or score window containing the contents of the file. If the file type is Options, the option information is loaded into the memory. The file formats are incompatible with those of older version before SBEAT 3.
• Save saves genomes or scores into a file. The file type is Gene if the top window is a field window. The file type is Score if the top window is a score window.
• Save as ... displays a file selection dialog to choose or create a file into which you save genome or score.
• Save as SMF ... saves scores into a new file in SMF (Standard MIDI File) format. You can publish this file on the internet adding ".mid" as the file name extension.
• Save options ... saves current options into a new file.
• Reset initializes all of non protected individuals by random genes in the top field window. Or, erases notes in all of the bars in the top score window.
• Close closes the top window. A dialog window appears to confirm whether you would like to save the content of the window when its changes have not been saved yet.
• Quit closes all windows of SBEAT and quits this program. This menu item doesn't appear when SBEAT is running on MacOS X. Use Quit SBEAT at the bottom in the SBEAT menu instead.

Edit menu

• Undo returns to the previous status.
• Cut clears up notes in secondary selected bars of the top score window, and copies the genome, score and optional information into the internal memory of SBEAT. It cannot be shared with any other applications.
• Copy copies the genome, score, and optional information of selected individuals of a field window or secondary selected bars in a score window.
• Paste pastes the information in the internal memory into selected individual(s) of a field window or secondary selected bars in a score window.
• Paste option ... shows a dialog window to select types of option to be pasted. The checked items in the internal memory are pasted into a field window, a genome editor, or secondary selected bars in a score window.
• Clear clears up notes in secondary selected bars of the top score window.
• Select all selects all of individuals in the top field window or all of bars in the top score window. If all of individuals or all of bars are already selected, all of them are deselected.
• Genome editor makes a window of genome editor to modify the genome of a selected individual in the top field window, or the primary selected bar in the top score window.
• Score edit has a sub menu to edit the score of a score window.
  • Notes up brings up the notes in secondary selected bars in a score window into two degrees above the original ones.
  • Notes down brings down the notes in secondary selected bars in a score window into two degrees below the original ones.
  • Shift right shifts a series of bars from the primary selected bar to the end of score window to right. The notes in the bar at the tail of score space will be lost.
  • Shift left shifts a series of bars from the primary selected bar to the end of score window to left. The notes in the bar at just front of selected bar will be lost.
  • Expand expands the space of score below by one row, four bars.
  • Shrink shrinks the space of score by eliminating the bottom row.

Generate menu

• Do it again does the previous generating action once again.
• Next in this field replaces non protected individuals in the field window into children in the next generation produced from selected individuals.
• Next in new field makes a new field window filled with children of the next generation produced from selected individuals.
• Mutate it replaces the selected individuals by their mutants.

Window menu

• Player shows/hides the Player dialog.
• Part option shows/hides the Part option dialog.
• Some items will be added below these items to select one of the existing field window, score window, or genome editor.

Help menu

• SBEAT Manual ... displays this reference manual on the screen using Apple Help Viewer.
• SBEAT Web site displays the SBEAT Web site on the screen using your default web browser. This only works when your computer is connected to the internet.