4.2. Screen components<br>

## 4.2. Screen components

An example of a screen is shown below:

The entire screen is occupied by the main window of the program. Auxiliary windows may be pasted into the main window and they can function as its part (like the data table shown in the figure above) or they can form separate windows displayed against the background of the main window. The auxiliary windows comprise among other the error list, data sets list and the toolbars. You can toggle the windows on and off, just like the additional toolbars (the “Functions” toolbar on the left side of the screen in the example shown above). Screen configuration is described in section 7.3.2.

The main components of the screen (main window) include:

1. Title:

On the left side of the title bar of the main window is the name of the program and name of the current file that is being edited. An “*” (asterisk) beside the file name indicates that the file has been changed since the last save operation (in the figure above). On the right side of the title bar are the standard system buttons.

2. Program menu:

Under the title bar is the program menu. When you click one of the menu items, the commands of that menu are displayed. If you find in this manual a passage like » “File / Save as...” «, it indicates that the “File” menu should be selected on the menu bar shown above and then the “Save as...” command should be selected from the drop-down menu.

3. Main toolbar and toolbar tabs:

The main toolbar has several tabs. When you click a selected tab the contents of the toolbar changes and new buttons show up. Clicking a button calls the function assigned to that button or enables the insertion mode of the given component. If you position the mouse pointer on a button (without clicking), the name of the function or component assigned to that button is displayed in a hint bubble.

The button on the left side of the main toolbar is used to switch to the select mode (when other operating mode was enabled, component insertion mode for instance). This button is displayed no matter which toolbar tab is selected.

Beside the button is a pull-down menu, which enables moving between worksheet layers and switching on and off operating modes.

4. Workspace with horizontal and vertical rulers:

A fragment of workspace with a fragment of a drawing plan is shown above. The workspace is bounded from above and left side by rulers: horizontal and vertical. The rulers let you control position of components you place in the drawing. The element that indicates the position of the mouse pointer in relation to the reference scale (rulers) is a vertical and a horizontal line that forms a kind of a target positioner. The button in the upper left corner between the rulers is used to change the viewing scale and displays the current scale (1:50 in the figure above).

5. Vertical and horizontal slider:

On the borders of the workspace opposite the rulers there are sliders, vertical and horizontal. The sliders are used to move the area of the drawing displayed on the screen. There are two ways of doing that. You can either drag the slider along the scrollbar which causes the drawing to scroll on the screen, or you can click the arrows on the scrollbars to move the displayed part of the drawing in small steps or you can click elsewhere on the scrollbar to move the drawing in larger steps. To move quickly within a large project, you can also use the navigator in the lower right-hand part of the screen (see section 4.4).

6. Project worksheet tabs:

In the lower left part of workspace, next to the horizontal ruler, there are tabs that represent worksheets in the project. If not all worksheet tabs fit into the screen, buttons with arrows are displayed, which enable scrolling the tabs. To enable editing a worksheet, click the relevant tab. The activated tab has a white background. Clicking the right mouse button on a tab opens the worksheets handling window – see section 3.8).

7. Status bar:

The status bar is at the bottom of the screen. The status bar displays current information about the status of the program (status icon on the left side) and position of the mouse pointer on the drawing area (numbers in brackets). Text messages are displayed in the middle with information on current operations.

Project layer tabs or layer check box and operating mode fields are on the right side of the status bar.

Project layer tabs or layer check box enable switching between different layers of the project (see section 4.5):

In the program settings (see section 7.3.1) you can switch between the tabs and the check box.

The operating mode fields are used to enable / disable operating modes (see section 4.6). Blue colour indicates an enabled mode, grey indicates a disabled mode. To toggle a mode on / off click the appropriate field (in the figure below the ORTO and GRID modes are enabled):

To facilitate switching between the different modes, convenient key combinations are assigned (see section 4.6).