Finisar Surveyor manual Configuring the Interface, Customizing Views and Windows, Docking Windows

Chapter 4

Configuring Surveyor

Configuring the Interface

In Surveyor, you can control the appearance of windows, the primary monitor view, the appearance of tables and charts, and the colors of decode displays. The following sections describe how to set up the interface to best meet your needs.

Customizing Views and Windows

The Surveyor graphical user interface is extremely flexible. It takes advantage of the features of Windows to allow you to customize your interface.

Multiple windows can be opened within both Summary View and Detail View. These sub-windows can be minimized, maximized, expanded, reduced, and tiled within the area of the Summary or Detail View. You can open as many windows as you have resources in Summary View. You can have all available views of a single resource in Detail View. You can have one view per resource open within Summary View.

Docking Windows

Summary View opens when Surveyor is started. The Summary View window is composed of Summary View area and three docking windows. The docking windows are:

•Alarm Browser

•Resource Browser

•Message View

You can size the docking windows by moving (click the left mouse and hold) the borders separating the windows. You can move the borders all the way to the edge of the Summary View window, thus hiding the docking windows. You can also

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