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After the successful installation, two NWB icons
To run NWB Tool, double click the ‘Network Workbench’ icon.
will appear on the Desktop.
To uninstall NWB Tool, i.e., to delete all files in *yournwbdirectory*, double click the ‘Uninstall NWB’ icon.
WARNING: clicking the ‘Uninstall NWB’ icon will delete every file and folder within *yournwbdirectory*. Make
sure all necessary documents are backed up.
1.3 Customizing NWB
Because NWB is built on CIShell, users can fully customize the tool through the use of plugins. A thorough walkthrough of how to develop and integrate plugins can be found at http://cishell.org/?n=DevGuide.NewGuide. A user
might create or download an NWB plugin or simply receive it via email from a colleague. To add the plugin to the
tool, save the *.jar file into the *yournwbdirectory*/plugins directory, restart the NWB Tool, and the plugin will
appear in the appropriate menu.
To delete a plugin, exit the NWB Tool and delete the corresponding *.jar file from the *yournwbdirectory*/plugins
directory. When the Tool is re-started, the plugin will no longer be available in the menu.
Users can also organize the menu items as they wish. In order to do so, you must open
*yournwbdirectory*/configuration/default_menu.xml in any text editor. The file is shown in Figure 1.2.
Figure 1.2: Changing the menu structure by editing the default_menu.xml specification file
The file is organized in a hierarchy, with menu items nested inside other menu items. An item’s depth within the
hierarchy is signified by how far it is indented, and the menu it resides in is determined by what top_menu name or
menu name it is underneath. A menu item takes the form <menu pid = “*AlgorithmIdentifierHere*” />, and from
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