How to save control panel?

What exactly do you want to save? I think the panel can only exist inside Igor. You can save the experiment file and the panel will reappear when the file is reopened. You could save a recreation macro which will (attempt to) build the panel in a different Igor session if executed. Right click on the panel and select 'Form Recreation Macro' which you will find in the procedure window (ctrl+m). If you want an image of the control panel you can just copy the panel when highlighted (ctrl+c) and then copy into another application (ctrl+v). Or do you want to save the just panel separately similar to the 'Save Graph Copy' functionality? I have actually never noticed the "Save Panel Copy" option. It seems this should save a file with only the necessary data for the panel. If it does nothing this could mean its a bug. The fastest way to resolve bugs is to write the Wavemetrics support directly.

Hi,

In general a panel, like any other window (table, graph,) can be saved to a recreation macro.  Most times this happens when you close the window and are prompted if you want to save it. Clicking yes will create a macro that can be called by going to window>Panel Macros>Panel_macro_name.  You can force the the saving of the macro by Window>Control>Window Control (or cmd-Y on the Mac).

Note: If you are modifying a panel that was created with the special flag /K=1 in the NewPanel command then the close window button will not show a save dialog window.

Andy

Thank you.  I have been using the same "experiment" for a range of image-processing applications and the size has grown enormously (> 6 GB) as I have created and deleted many waves. It seems like Igor's memory allocation process doesn't always recover space when waves are deleted, so I'm trying to create a "fresh" experiment with only the procedures and control panel.  I'll try the recreation macro- it seems like that would be perfect.  thanks much!