Category: ProVision, PMI Products
Most software products have a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows the user to interact with the program, and ProVision is no exception. Some of these interfaces can be quite simple and only contain a handful of basic controls, while others can be significantly more complex and utilize a wide variety of different types of controls. However, regardless of the number, layout, or type of controls a user interface has, its basic responsibility is the same: to allow the user to interact with the program, and for the program to relay information about its current state to the user.
The responsibilities of the ProVision user interface, to name a few, include listing any currently connected recorders and available recording files, showing any recording downloads in progress, and displaying any open graphs and reports. The communication group window is quite versatile; it is capable of displaying the current progress of a communication with a recorder such as a recording download or the uploading of new firmware, any open graph or report, and real-time waveforms. Whenever any of these are open, they are displayed as a new tab in the communication group window as shown in Figure 1. This whitepaper serves as an overview of the tab functionality and the different ways these can be displayed.
A new tab is added to the communication group window when opening a graph or report or initiating any type of recorder communication. These tabs are displayed at the top of the window, as shown, and the correlating contents of different tabs can be shown by clicking that tab with the mouse. However, it’s possible to modify the order the tabs are displayed in, to separate them into distinct groups to display contents of multiple tabs, or do away with the tabbed layout entirely.
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