The profile selection dialog is shown when Scorpion is started with no system defined on the command line.

The following operations are available from the menu:

• Open - start the selected profile

  • Open w/Event Trace - start profile with console window visible
  • Open Stopped - starts profile without starting the profile

• New

  • Creates a new directory

• Rename - renames the selected profile

• Copy

  • Copies a Scorpion profile directory to another directory

  • Note: the directory is removed before copying the profile

• Delete - Deletes a Scorpion profile directory

• Shortcut

  • Creates a shortcut to the profile. It is vice to establish a shortcut to each profile if you have more than one profile on your computer. You place the shortcut either on the Desktop, under the Scorpion program group on the Start menu or in the system folder. This makes the start up easy and convenient.

• Backup

  • Makes a backup of a Scorpion profile in zip-format

  • All files are backed up up including sub-directories

• Restore

  • Restores a profile from a given directory, opens a folder for browsing

• Folder

  • Selects a folder for profile selection dialog

• Refresh

  • Refreshes the profile selection dialog if there has been changes

• Explore

  • Opens the Windows Explorer

• License
  • Open the licence dialog - more information

• Large Icons

  • Toggles the list view

• Show buttons

  • Toggles the buttons on the right side on or off

• Help

  • Activates the help window

Starting a profile

A Scorpion profile can be started from the command-line - see shortcut - or by selecting a profile in the profile selection dialog. When Scorpion starts a warning is issue when

• A profile is started when version prior to has save the profile
• When Scorpion cannot 100% reliable convert an profile to a new version with the following options
  • Yes - will make a backup of the unmodified profile before starting Scorpion
  • No - will start Scorpion and the profile will be modified by Scorpion when saving the profile or terminating Scorpion
  • Abort - will abort executing of the profile