User manual

2 User Interface

This chapter describes the fundamental user interface concepts

used by XCSoar, and is intended as an overview. More detailed

descriptions are given in following chapters.

The XCSoar display is composed of several parts:

Map area : The bulk of the screen is dedicated to the GPS moving map

display. Various symbols relating to glide computer infor-

mation are overlaid on the map area. Icons and text may

appear along the lower edge of the screen to indicate status

of connected devices, operating modes etc.

InfoBoxes : A grid of data values is displayed either along the top and

bottom of the screen (portrait display) or to the right of the

screen (landscape display). These so-called InfoBoxes dis-

play data from the GPS and other input devices as well as

data generated by the glide computer.

Gauges : Gauges provide instrumentation displays. All gauges are

optional and some may only have meaningful information

displayed when XCSoar is connected to a supported instru-

ment.