Operator`s manual

1.3.2 Message Board and Text Input
(Figure-3, Message Board and Text Input)
The command text-input box and the system message board are located at the bottom of
the SRT control-panel window (figure-3). Many of the actions initiated by clicking the
command toolbar are implemented by entry of parameter settings in the text box.
Information regarding the correct entry is printed in a message board above the text entry
area when the mouse pointer is moved over the desired command button.
Some of the buttons (source and Rcmdfl) will display more than one set of instructions if
the pointer is moved away then returned to the button area. In the case of the source
button, continuous clicking of the left mouse button will scroll through the source list on
file and each source name will display in the message board.
The message board will also display the current active line command from a command
file and the line number. This text will appear green in the form: filename.cmd: line nn:
text command.
To the right of the message board text area is another space used to echo information
after a text command is entered. Printed in blue, it will repeat the issued command or
advise the user that the issued command is waiting on some other action of the telescope.
Receiver output and telescope status can be read in two small text boxes just above the
message board and below the map azimuth scale.
In the left box, reading from the left is the current: frequency sweep (set in
"freq"), receiver "counts" (uncorrected power level detected by the receiver), the
real-time system temperature and the attenuation setting.
In the right box the user can reading the current status of the telescope as a
whole: Stowed, slewing, or tracking.