Installation manual
SimradPI50
Themenusystem
Thissectionprovidesashortintroductiontothemenusystem,andexplainsthebasicuse
ofthePI50menubuttons.
Formoreinformationaboutthemenusystem,seeThemenusystemonpage106.
Topics
•Themenuhierarchyonpage26
•Menubuttonsonpage26
Themenuhierarchy
Figure9The
Mainmenu
(top)with
theOperation
sub-menubelow
ThemenusystemonthePI50isbydefaultplacedontherighthand
sideofthedisplaypresentation.Y oucanhowevereasilymovethe
menutotheleftsideusingtheDisplayOptionsdialog,orhideit
fromviewwiththeMenubuttonontheTitleBar.
Themainmenuisshort,andthethreesub-menusareopenedby
clickingonthethreeicons.
1TheMainmenuprovidestheparametersmostfrequentlyused
duringnormaloperation.
2TheOperationmenucontrolsthemainoperationalparameters.
3TheDisplaymenucontrolsthevisualaspectsofthesystem,
suchasparametersrelatedtothedisplaypresentation.
4TheSetupmenuallowsyoutocontroltheconguration
ofthesignalprocessing,aswellassysteminstallationand
maintenance,andtheinterfacestoperipheraldevices.
Menubuttons
Eachmenucontainsseveralmenubuttons.Eachbuttonshowsthefunctionofthebutton,
someofthemalsodisplaythecurrentparametersetting.Themajorityofthebuttonsin
eachmenuprovideoneormoreofthesefunctions:
•Youcanincreaseanddecreaseparametervaluesbyclickingthe[+]and[–]elds
onthebutton.
•Youcanchangeparametervaluesbyclickingonthebutton,holdingthemouse
depressed,andthenmovingthecursorsideways.
•Youcanchangeparametervaluesbymeansofthescrollwheelonthemouseor
trackball.
•Youcanenterparametervaluesfromthekeyboard(ifyouhaveone).
•Youcanselectparametervaluefromthebutton’ssub-menu.
•Youcanopenadedicateddialog.
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