SCM menu
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All GUI modules have an SCM menu. The SCM menu is the leftmost menu in
all modules, and is represented by either the SCM-logo or the text
SCM.

In general, when you select a command from the SCM menu you will
switch to the selected module, showing the same job as you have open
in the current module. If such a module is already running with that
particular job open, it will be brought to the front. If you use the
SCM menu to open the same module as is currently active, it will start
another blank copy of this module. Thus the SCM menu is very
convenient to quickly switch between the already open windows
belonging to the same job.

As a shortcut you can also right-click on a job name in AMSjobs, and
the SCM menu will appear with the job you clicked on selected.

In AMSjobs the currently selected job will be used with the SCM menu.
Thus, if you have one job selected, using the **SCM → View** command
will start or switch to AMSview, showing the results of the selected
job. If you have no job selected, or more then one, the selected
module will start blank.

One important exception within AMSjobs: the Input module will always
start a new blank version. If you wish to show the input GUI for the
selected job you need to click in the icon in front of it (reading
'ADF', 'BAND', or some other job type).

The SCM menu also allows you access to preferences for that are used
by all GUI modules: **SCM → Preferences**

In some cases a GUI module is able to open several file types. For
example, AMSmovie can open the logfile or the .t21 file of a
calculation. By selecting a file in AMSjobs (after opening the job by
clicking on the triangle) you can force AMSmovie to open the .t21 or
the .logfile. In a similar way, you can force AMSview to open a .t21
or a .t41 file.

The **SCM → Quit** and **SCM → Quit All** menu commands will close
windows: the Quit command will close all windows belonging to the
current job, the Quit All command will close all open GUI windows, as
well as any invisible background processes belonging to the GUI (scmd
and scmjobd).
