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1. pm Figure 7 The graph editing dialogue allows graphs output objects to be edited i e any DataViews graph object with the exception of any graphs which require a matrix variable not supported by the GWDU These output elements allow MDB variables to be displayed in a Synoptic Display in many formats at run time e g Bar Chart Line Graphs Pie Chart etc To edit a graph select the graph and click on the Edit button The Object type toggle indicator indicates the type of the graph being edited It can also be used to change the type of the graph by clicking on the button This displays the full set of graph types available in the edit dialogue screen area Click on the desired button to select the graph type See the following figure GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 28 WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY ALL TYPES Figure 8 GWDU Graph Type Toggle Selections The Standard GECK Graph object options allow the user to configure the appearance of the graph e g Selects whether Legend Outline Axis labels etc shall be present See DV 2 for full details When a graph is created it is given a default variable denoted by a button labelled DE FAULT This can be deleted manually when a MDB variable is added using the DEL but ton on the far right of the DEFAULT variable row use the scroll bars or it will be deleted au
2. the end item variable attached to each dynamic object Figure 5 This figure shows the editing dialogue for Symbol objects Dynamic only To edit a Symbol select the Symbol to edit and click on the Edit symbol button If the Symbol has not been edited before the editing screen will show default pathnames in the End Item text fields A pathname for a valid variable from the MDB must be entered for each Graph type object within the symbol This will define the data source that will drive each dynamic object graph inside with symbol at run time The next time the edit dialogue is OK ed the variables pathnames will be checked and if valid any threshold data present for the variable will be read The Reload button on the same line as the pathname that has been entered will cause the pathname to be checked and the threshold data to be read there and then when pressed The Reload button will also update the Threshold button GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 24 for that line If the Symbol has been edited before any previously entered variables will be displayed and can be changed as desired Even if the variable pathname for a Graph type has not changed the MDB data for that variable can be re read by pressing the Reload button This can be useful if a variable in the MDB has changed maybe a thres
3. button rather than the Icon button and when placing in the Drawing Area two clicks must be made to size as well as position the Image GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 10 2 3 Changing and Setting Default Object Attributes Object Name Colour settings Text Size Font Arc Line style Direction Object Name Anchor point Orientation Fill Mode Polygon Line Width Not used for GWDU Curve Method Figure 3 Attributes Menu The Attribute Menu on the top of the GWDU screen has two purposes i to set default attributes that newly created objects will have ii to change the attributes of existing objects If no object is selected in the Drawing Area then any changes to the Attributes Menu will change the default attributes for new objects If an object is selected then any changes to the Attributes Menu will change the attributes for that object only It is possible to change some attributes for a group of objects at the same time for example it is possible to change the colours of all objects in a group Click on the appropriate pixmap image to change an attribute These attributes are the same as what are available in DV Draw refer to DV 2 for details The colour settings icon is used to change the foreground or background colour of the se lected object s or if no object is selected then the default colour will be set The inner
4. Allan Mahler GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 DISTRIBUTION LIST USER SYMBOL o For information x For action User Symbol Address Codes Name x DASA RI RIT14 Peter Heckmann ROVSING A S Poul Erik Holmdahl ROVSING A S Allan Mahler ROVSING A S Claus Olsen ROVSING A S Project library ooo o This document and the subjects described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved Under the copyright laws the documentation may not be copied photocopied reproduced translated or summarised to any electronic medium or machine readable form in whole or in part without written consent of ROVSING A S Copyright 1999 ROVSING A S Dyregardsvej 2 P O Box 30 DK 2740 Skovlunde Denmark GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 DOCUMENT CHANGE LOG issue Dae a Modified Sections Reason For Change 13 September 1996 First issue Draft ee 1 0 5 November 1996 All DN 114 001 DASA UM 001 DN 114 001 DASA UM 003 DN 114 001 DASA UM 004 1 1 6 January 1997 All GWDU v3 1 issue 1 2 30 April 1997 All GWDU v4 0 changes GWDU v4 1 changes implemented early 1 3 13 November 1997 All GWDU v4 1 1 issue 1 4 29 May 1998 Updated for GWDU version 4 2 1 All DN 114 001 DASA UM 018 Editorials DN 114 001 DASA UM 019 Outdated missing info Section 2 1 1 and 2 1 5 point 1 Section 1 6 point 2
5. Display Symbol internal data is corrupted invalid Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual lt optional details gt MDB error getting End Item Error return from call to MDB API The session log file may contain type additional information see User Manual Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Consult MDB support MDB lock error Error return from call to MDB API The session log file may contain additional information see User Manual Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual MDB save error Error return from call to MDB API The session log file may contain additional information see User Manual Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Consult MDB support GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 Memory allocation error Insufficient free memory on the workstation running the GWDU Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Try to free some mem ory by closing other running programs Merge view failed DataViews error with Merge View operation Synoptic Display Sym bol internal data is now probably corrupted invalid Perform GWDU emergency exit as des
6. WDU_GROUND_SYMBOL If the MDB end item being edited has been modified since the last save a View Modified popup will appear asking if the existing end item should be saved before the new one is loaded 2 4 1 2 Merge This option provides the Import facility for the GWDU DV Draw views can be imported with the following limitations importing of anything other than DV Draw views containing primitive elements Text Circles Lines Images etc with no Dynamics attached will cause problems leading to DataViews error messages and unpredictable GWDU behaviour and even possible crashes The File Ops popup appears and a filename must be given for a DataViews view file in the Unix file system 2 4 1 3 Save This option will save the currently edited Synoptic Display or Symbol in to the MDB with the same name as it was loaded with No confirmation or prompt will be given The mouse cursor will change in to a watch until the save is complete When in synoptic display editing mode if the synoptic display being edited is inconsistent the Consistency Report Dialogue will appear containing a report identifying the objects that are inconsistent The causes of inconsistencies are e Missing end item attachments to objects which require an end item pathname reference For example Graphs need at least one variable other than the DEFAULT variable and Picture Selection Markers need a synoptic display reference e Incomplete end items The driving
7. but a warning message will appear It is not possible to OK the edit dialogue if a missing or invalid pathname is entered for the State code field i e the discrete variable The Reload button will re read the MDB for the discrete end item This can be used if the discrete calibration of the end item has changed since the end item was attached to the dis play and its new calibration needs to be reflected in the display The end item is re read even if the text field has not changed If the discrete end item is incomplete see ICD 1 the path name of the end item will be dis played in red text not black Great care should be taken if the discrete is incomplete The order of state codes may change if calibration RAW VALUES are missing and the corre spondence between symbols and state codes are based on this order alone The cancel button will undo any changes made during the edit session GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 23 2 6 3 Symbol Editing Select End Items This button reloads the Graph type End item Threshold Reload MDB data The type of for the each i Line Graph EURECA EGSE TESTIROVSINGDATAMINT_3 Ti Reload variable end dynamic item object eURECAEGSE TESTROVSINGDATAFLOAT A inside the Vertical Bar EURECA EGSEXTEST ROVSINGDATA FLOAT_E symbol This button enters the threshold The MDB alting dialogue for end item
8. Section 2 6 1 and 2 6 2 point 3 Section 2 6 5 and 2 6 6 point 4 Section 2 6 5 and 2 6 6 point 5 Section 2 3 2 4 1 5 2 4 1 6 point 6 2 4 3 4 and 2 1 5 Section 2 6 5 1 SPR 6116 GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 vi GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 Purpose This is the Software Users Manual and Operations Manual for the Ground Window Defini tion Utility GWDU This document specifies the instructions necessary to operate the GWDU editor in the development of Ground Synoptic Displays and Ground Symbols 1 2 Scope This document will explain all GWDU specific dialogues and editing techniques necessary to operate the GWDU It does not however explain many of the DataViews concepts needed This information should be obtained from the DataViews documentation ie the XDGeck and DV Draw Users manuals ref DV 1 DV 2 The DataViews Technical Overview manual ref DV 4 also provides a good overview for the complete beginner 1 3 Definitions and Acronyms Definitions DataViews Graphical User Interface development tool from DataViews Corporation Graph Any DataViews graphical object Acronyms CCU Configuration Control Uni
9. Subdrawing Editing Select Subdrawings States for the discrete end static item variable _ WIBBLE EuRECA EGSETESTROVSINGSYA symbols State name End item Pathnames of 5 Pathnames of FE Default DEFAULT STATE OTHER EURECA EGSE TESTAROVSINGTESTY symbol State code Reload Fane of KEURECA EGSE TESTIROVSINGDATA STATE_1 Reload button the discrete variable to drive the Cancel subdrawing s al annearance Figure 4 This figure shows the editing dialogue for Subdrawing objects To edit a subdrawing select the subdrawing to edit and click on the Edit subdrawing button If the subdrawing has not been edited before the editing screen will show default pathnames in the End Item text fields A pathname for a valid WDU GROUND SYMBOL from the MDB must be entered for each State name for the discrete variable entered in the State code field This will define the symbol that will be displayed at run time when the driving variable has that particular State Value If the subdrawing has been edited before any symbol pathnames entered will appear next to its corresponding State name They can be edited as desired The symbols used within a subdrawing must be of type STATIC i e they must contain no dynamic output elements Error messages will appear if an invalid pathnames are given for any text field or if the end items are not of the correc
10. Try again Consult MDB support if problem persists The Pathname Support utility was unable to connect to Oracle Try again Consult MDB support if problem persists Pathname Support returned er The Pathname Support utility returned an unexpected error GSAF ROVSING A S GWDU Development Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 USERS Manual Date 24 February 1999 Pathname Support timeout type lt number gt Preview Line lt number gt in Run File is invalid VAR line End Item Pathname and type not detected Popup menu has no sub menus Reached limit of user defined items while reading Run file variable parameters Requested End Item is not a lt type gt Requested End Item is not a cor rect type in this context Run File does not contain any input data for the variable lt name gt The complete filepathname is too long The End Item contains more states than allowed The maximum number of input symbol actions has been reached The maximum number of vari ables has been reached Too few End Items defined for Symbol Too few Symbols defined for Subdrawing GSAF ROVSING A S The Pathname Support utility did not respond within the time out limit This might be due to heavy load on the workstation Do not quit Pathname Support when appearing on desktop Just reject it The type number in paranthesis is the returncode from the MDB system PNS Try again Consult MDB support if problem persist
11. Y planes e Scale by This pops up the Scale by slider which sets the amount to scale objects in the other scale options e X shrink Shrinks the selected object s only in the X direction e X expand Expands the selected object s only in the X direction e Y shrink Shrinks the selected object s only in the Y direction e Y expand Expands the selected object s only in the Y direction Note It is a user responsibility to ensure the aspect ratio of User Defined Symbols is pre served when using Scale This is easy to do by just using Shrink and Expand which will ensure even scaling in X and Y planes 2 5 6 Rotate This button pops up the rotate menu which will rotate the selected object s as follows e Rotate CW Rotates the object s clockwise by the amount specified by the Rotate by option e Rotate CCW Rotates the object s counter clockwise by the amount specified by the Rotate by option e Rotate by This pops up the Rotate by slider which sets the amount to rotate objects in the other rotate options Rotate is performed by rotating object control points All rectangles are disrupted by rotation since they are controlled by two opposite corners So is user defined dynamic symbols and graphs rectangle based and even the selection frame of such symbols is disrupted by rota tion GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24
12. and software variables Table 1 MDB end item type matrix Note No MDB End item Standard Type 1 2 3 4 0 EGSE_FLOAT_MEASUREMENT EGSE_FLOAT_SW_VARIABLE EGSE_INTEGER_MEASUREMENT EGSE_INTEGER_SW_VARIABLE 2 EGSE_DISCRETE_MEASUREMENT EGSE_DISCRETE_SW_VARIABLE GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 20 WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY WDU_GROUND_SYMBOL of type STATIC EGSE_BYTE_STREAM_MEASUREMENT EGSE_BYTE_STREAM_SW_VARIABLE EGSE_DISCRETE_MEASUREMENT EGSE_DISCRETE_SW_VARIABLE If an end item attached to the display somehow is incomplete see below the display of the end item name in a dialog will appear in red in stead of the normal black colour This should alert display developers to the inconsistent end item An end item is considered incomplete if one of the following rules are violatet e INTEGER and FLOAT end items must have an engineering range both low and high limit e INTEGER and FLOAT end items must have either none or both limits high and low of danger limits and nominal limits Only one part of either limit set e g danger limit low is illegal e EGSE_ DISCRETE MEASUREMENT must have at least one calibration e Each calibration STATE CODE must have a RAW VALUE and vice versa for all DISCRETE end items GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 21 2 6 2
13. are broken Due to DataViews hard coded limitations some limitations may not be as stated in DV 21 The GWDU will not allow variables to be deleted from a graph if the graph has already reached its minimum level of variables most commonly limited to one A warning mes sage is issued if you try If a MDB variable has changed in the MDB since it was attached to the Synoptic Display its new values will not automatically be introduced in to the Display A MDB variable can be updated from its latest state in the MDB by clicking on the variable button containing the pathname in the variable row then immediately hitting lt Return gt or selecting OK without modifying the pathname The variable will be re read and the thresholds if any will be updated accordingly Thresholds are acquired from the attached end item in the case of an INTEGER or FLOAT The engineering range becomes the min max range The danger limits and nominal limit each contribute a pair of additional thresholds resulting in five intervals four separators five intervals coloured red yellow green yellow and red If the limits GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 30 are not present or incomplete for the end item threshold is simply set to the same value as the next outermost threshold In the case of missing engineering range the range and all threshold pairs are set to 0 32767
14. click on the button with the label Dy namic A list of dynamic attributes appears Select the desired attribute noting that not all attributes are applicable to each type refer to DV 2 for details A dynamic attributes row is created The indicator to the left of the attribute name on the newly created row is red if the attribute is applicable to the object being edited Newly created dynamic attribute rows are given a default variable denoted by the button marked DEFAULT To replace the default variable with one from the MDB click on the DEFAULT button and enter a valid MDB variable pathname in the Select end item popup Once a valid pathname has been entered the pathname replaces DEFAULT in the button label This button containing the path can then be used to change the variable in the GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 33 same way if desired later Two kinds of dynamics attribute rows can be created either threshold driven or transforma tional depending on the attribute e THRESHOLD Threshold driven attributes change the object in discrete amounts If fore ground colour is selected using an MDB variable with a engineering range from 0 to 10 and thresholds would specify the colour for the object to have in given ranges for the vari able say variable range 0 to 5 would give RED and 5 to 10 would give BLUE Other threshold dr
15. else managed to lock the End Item between the save and re load operation Opened as Read Only Use SaveAs to save to another End Item Current editing operation not You have tried to quit the GWDU without completing an editing op completed eration like choosing a colour for an object Complete the commenced operation before quitting The Message Line in the GWDU window will tell you what to do Default variable s present in Some DataViews variables in the display was not attached to an MDB display End Item The Run File template will be incomplete since no VAR ENDVAR lines for these variables will be present Attach all variables to End Items Encountered unknown action During a preview an unknown action type internal type was en type lt action gt countered Verify the value of the action field with the GWDU End Item is FROZEN Opened The End Item could not be locked because it is in a FROZEN and as Read Only therefore nor writable If editing is intended use End Item which is in state DEVELOPMENT by selection of proper CDU CCU End Item is FROZEN Save As The End Item could not be locked because it is in a FROZEN and failed therefore nor writable Select End Item which is in state DEVELOPMENT and re try Error in Run File syntax The statement of the Run File for the mentioned variable misses the ENDVAR not found for vari mandatory ENDVAR keyword at the end able Use standard editor to correct Run Fil
16. end item variables may be incomplete due to missing attributes and this makes the object and in turn the Display inconsistent e Invalid end item attachments This may be a case where a valid variable has been attached GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 12 to the display but since then the end item has been deleted or is not visible in the current MDB scope Le if a Synoptic Display is created in CCU mode and then opened later in CDU mode with references outside the CDU e Missing HLCL commands Input objects that require HLCL command strings to be at tached must have the minimum number attached for the object type The inconsistency report will specify the object type and possibly show a label if applicable Position co ordinate s will also be displayed for the object to allow the user to locate and rectify the inconsistency When the mouse cursor is in the Drawing Area its co ordinate can be displayed by pressing the C key This displays the cursor co ordinate in the Message Line If the C key is held down whilst moving the mouse cursor the co ordinates are up dated as the cursor moves 2 4 1 4 Save As This option allows the currently edited Synoptic Display or Symbol to be saved in to the MDB with a different name The Select end item popup appears Enter the pathname of the desired MDB end item to save to If the entered end item is not pres
17. the symbol editor and wants to reflect this change in a synoptic dis play containing the old version of the symbol the Update function must be selected in Syn optic editing mode only This option also updates symbols attached to Subdrawing objects The user should note the following when using the update function e The new symbol could be of a different type from the old symbol i e the symbol type could change from STATIC to DYNAMIC or visa versa see section 2 1d for a descrip GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 15 tion of the two types This is particularly important for symbols attached to Subdrawing objects as only STATIC symbols are allowed An error message will warn if a symbol cannot be updated e DYNAMIC symbols containing animation class variables variables attached to graphs inside the symbol could be affected in an update The new symbol may have more or less Graphs inside the symbol than the old symbol The Update function tries to match exist ing end item attachments to the new symbol but Update will try and match on a one to one basis Le if a Graph is inserted in the middle of the new Symbol in the middle with respect to the object drawing order front to back then the same end item mapping will no be preserved The same applies if a variable type mismatch occurs Le if a Graph in the new symbol is changed to one expecting a variable of DI
18. type parameter was wrong cation Use either WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY or WDU_GROUND_SYMBOL as End Item type Error in Symbol Synoptic Incorrect SID and Internal Version combination specified specification On manual invocation Check SID and Internal Version numbers On MDB invocation Contact MDB support GWDU_HOME environment Environment variable GWDU_HOME must be set before invocation variable must be set Make sure GWDU_HOME is defined correctly Check environment and verify your Unix shell start up scripts Incorrect number of parameters Too few parameters provided in command line See GWDU User Manual for information on invocation parameters GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999
19. A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 17 Zoom By option e Zoom to This allows the user to click and drag a rectangle to specify the new visible part of the Drawing Area e Reset This option resets the visible part of the Drawing Area to the default area which is visible on invocation of the GWDU e Zoom by This option allows the user to set the zoom factor to use for Zoom in or Zoom out operations by using the Zoom by slider popup 2 4 4 File Indicator This indicator on the bottom of the View menu indicates the currently loaded MDB end item If the end item has been modified since the last save appears after the end item name to indicate the change 2 5 Object Manipulation Commands The object manipulation commands are buttons located on the right hand side of GWDU for performing actions on objects For each of the following commands at least one object must be selected to perform the action on 2 5 1 Grid Snap This button moves the selected object s to the nearest exact grid point The snap function acts upon control points rather than the visible edge of the object s although they are often the same For example User Defined Symbols have only one central control point therefore the control point is snapped to the nearest grid position NOT the edge of the symbol 2 5 2 Edit Text This button is only selectable when Text or Vtext objects are selected It enables t
20. February 1999 19 2 5 7 Mirror This button has two options e Flip X which flips the selected object s about the Y axis e Flip Y which flips the selected object s about the X axis 2 5 8 Reorder This button has two options e Front This moves the selected object s to the front of the object list i e the object ap pears on top of all other objects in the Drawing area e Back This moves the selected object s to the back of the object list i e the object appears below all other objects in the Drawing area 2 6 Object Editing and End Item attachment 2 6 1 End Item attachment General rules This table lists the valid MDB end item types for various objects Object type Allowable end item types Any Graph type except All integer and float measurements and software variables Text and Message types Text or Message Discrete measurement software variable or byte stream Graph types Picture Select input ob Synoptic Display ject cannot mix float and integer in one Graph though Graph objects inside The same rules apply as for Graphs see above Dynamic Symbols Subdrawings State code Driving variable must be a discrete measurement or software variable end item Subdrawings State Only static symbols can be attached to each state for the subdrawing naine enes Symbols and Symbol types are explained in section bao Dynamic objects All integer and float measurements
21. ROVSING A S GSAF GWDU Development Users Manual and Operations Manual Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 Ext Doc No Dyregardsvej 2 P O Box 30 Phone Fax VAT No ROVSING A S DK 2740 Skovlunde 45 44 200 800 45 44 200 801 16 13 90 84 CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY 1 Unclassified 1 Config controlled for approval x 2 Industry 2 Config controlled for review 3 Restricted 3 Non config controlled for review 4 Confidential 4 For information CONTRACT Contract number GSAF CD ROVI 34 Issuing organisation DASA Programme GSAF Contractual date Issue 2 Work package number April 1996 11QAP BM 11QAR BM amp 11QAS BM TITLE Issue INTERNAL REFERENCE NUMBER of pages 51 Issue date 24 February 1999 R PROJECT 114 FWDU_GWDU NUMBER of annexes Maint GWDU Documents UM GWDU doc SUMMARY This is the Software Users Manual and Operations Manual for the Ground Window Definition Utility GWDU part of the project GWDU Development This document specifies the instructions necessary to operate the GWDU editor in the creation of Ground Syn optic Displays and Ground Symbols HOST SYSTEM HARDWARE EQUIP MEDIA SOFTWARE MENT LANGUAGE CODE Nature M O Nature and type DD Name Word 97 ENGLISH UK HP LaserJet Identification KEY WORDS Prepared by Ground Window Definition Utility Users Manual Claus Olsen DataViews Approved by Poul Erik Holmdahl Authorised by
22. SCRETE or BYTE_STREAM type variable and the previous graph was expecting an INTEGER or FLOAT type or visa versa then an error will be flagged In this case the update will be performed but the end item attachment will be left blank e If an updated DYNAMIC symbol contains more graphs than the previous symbol then any existing end item attachments for the previous graph will be attached to the graphs in the new symbol but the extra graphs will have no end item attachments e If a symbol included in a synoptic display no longer exists in the MDB it will not be de leted during an Update operation but the user will be warned that the symbol could not be found in the MDB to be updated e Update cannot update reliably a symbol that has been rotated The symbol will update but the scaling or rotation may not be as expected This is a DataViews limitation If such an operation is required then the symbol should be deleted re included and then rotated to the desired amount 2 4 2 9 Show Clipboard This option popup the Clipboard popup which displays the contents of the Clipboard i e the contents of the last Cut operation which is what the next Paste will produce Click on the Close button to dismiss the Clipboard popup 2 4 3 View 2 4 3 1 Refresh This option is exactly the same as the Refresh button on the left hand side object creation menu It refreshes the Drawing Area when selected 2 4 3 2 Grid This toggle button option toggles t
23. The corrective actions presented should be used All possible warnings are listed below Warning Cause and Corrective action Cannot generate file lt name gt The GWDU was unable to generate a Report File or a Run File of the specified name in the Unix file system Make sure the name is a valid name and that you have write permis sion for the destination directory Cannot open Run File lt name gt The GWDU was unable to open the specified Run File Make sure the file is present GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 A 3 Cannot print to lt printer gt The GWDU was unable to print to the printer specified Assert that the printer specified is a valid OS printer name and that files referred to in the print command is available Could not lock End Item In The End Item could not be locked because it is already locked ac Use Opened as Read Only cessed by another user Changes cannot be saved to this End Item Use SaveAs to save to another End Item Could not lock End Item In The End Item could not be locked as it is locked accessed by an Use Save As failed other user Changes cannot be saved to this End Item Select other destination End Item and re try Could not re lock End Item The End Item could not be locked as it is locked accessed by an other user Changes cannot be saved to this End Item During a Save or SaveAs operation someone
24. U editor and DV Draw and will show how to obtain the corresponding DV Draw functionality in the GWDU The main GWDU screen is similar to that of DV Draw particularly with respect to the posi tioning of the various menu items available However the GWDU editing dialogues will be explained as they vary slightly from DV Draw Note that the GWDU version number appears in the title of the GWDU application window The figures throughout this document showing screen shots may show older versions than the current version in the title This is the case if the screen shot in question has not changed in subsequent versions In this issue of the manual the GWDU application windows are valid for all GWDU versions 4 1 x and 4 2 x for all values of x GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 1 6 1 GWDU Context The role of the GWDU is shown in Figure 1 The user creates the synoptic displays using the GWDU While creating the synoptic displays the GWDU extracts information about the ref erenced end items from the Mission Database The synoptic displays are stored as end items in the Mission Database when the user has completed the synoptic display definition Synop tic displays already defined in the Mission Database can be extracted and edited by the GWDU The synoptic display end items will also contain other information such as cross reference lists containing the identification of r
25. USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 APPENDIX A GWDU MESSAGES There are several categories of messages produced by the GWDU Some are specific GWDU messages and some are either DataViews or GECK standard messages Refer to the Data Views DV Tools manual DV 3 for the latter category The specific GWDU messages are divided into two categories Warnings and Errors ac cording to requirements The GWDU does not have specific info messages A third type of messages may appear on erroneous invocation see INVOCATION MESSAGES further down ERROR MESSAGES Error messages appear only in case of troubles The GWDU then is in an illegal situation or state and things are likely to go wrong if you continue Thus the following procedure should be engaged GWDU emergency exit e Try to save the work preferably in a separate display symbol end item to avoid losing your original work e It may be desirable 8for later problem analysis to save the log file GWDU_LOG TXT from the temporary working data directory 6GWDU_HOME data lt machine gt _ lt pid gt since it will be removed on normal exits e Quit the GWDU e The circumstances should be noted and reported The saved display symbol can then be re invoked and with a little luck you can continue All possible error messages are listed below An internal error occurred An internal consistency check within the GWDU has failed Synoptic
26. al Date 24 February 1999 31 edited Internally the threshold range is stored in 15 bit which corresponds to a range of 0 32767 Numbers outside this range can be used for thresholds but thresholds with values outside the range 10 747 418 10 747 418 generates warning messages on the shell standard output The same is the case with very small intervals lt 10 Thresholds with such warnings issued will be prone to loss of precision The Threshold editing functions are selected by the series of Threshold command buttons in the top right of the threshold editing dialogue The buttons are as follows e Add Threshold Once selected the Add threshold popup appears which provides two methods of creating a threshold I via text field entry or ID via the Threshold slider To add a threshold via method I simply add the value for the desired threshold in the text entry field marked Add new threshold and hit lt Return gt Then select a colour from the Colour Palette for the new threshold to have The value specified in the text field must be between the variable s minimum and maximum values i e its engineering range Note as the lt Return gt key is hit the slider will update to the value in the text field but due to the precision of the Slider the fractional part may vary slightly This however has no ef fect on the creation of the threshold Values entered outside the variable s range will be igno
27. alogue was OK ed but not all necessarry refer ences to End Items were yet attached to the Graph objects inside the Symbol Supply missing End Item references The Subdrawing editing dialogue was OK ed but not all necessary references to Symbol End Items were yet attached for each State of GWDU Development Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 USERS Manual Date 24 February 1999 A 6 the Subdrawing Supply missing Symbol End Item references Too many graphs in Symbol This Symbol has more that 10 graphs GWDU only allows 10 graphs Edit the Symbol and reduce number of graphs or use another legal Symbol Type mismatch in update Text During update the GWDU detected that the graph type and input type Graphs Not Text Graph dogs pon meet Text graphs and only text graphs should have BYTE_STREAM in put Correct the mismatch Unable to access settings file During loading of settings lt filename gt Opening of the file was unsuccessful Make sure the file does exist and you have proper access rights During saving of settings The GWDU was unable to open create the specified file Validate name and access rights for the file and make sure the file system is not full Unable to find variable refer A DataViews variable reference VAR in the Run File does not have enced in Run File a corresponding variable in the Synoptic Display VAR Pathname lt name gt line Use standard editor to correct Run File Then
28. artly outside the user selected rectangle e All Group all objects in the Drawing Area e If Dynamic Groups any dynamic objects i e anything that can have an end item attached from the MDB with the exception of Dynamic User Defined Symbols which only have Dynamics internally 2 4 2 2 Delete This option deletes the currently selected object s from the Synoptic Display or Symbol and removes any end item attachments they might have 2 4 2 3 Undelete This option undoes the last and only the last Delete operation The undeleted object s are recovered along with any previous end item attachments and are left selected after the op eration Note that if a Cut operation is performed after a Delete operation then the Undelete option will be removed for the last Delete as Cut uses the Delete buffer Undelete will also be un available after an Open or Save As operation i e Undelete cannot be performed in another GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 14 end item 2 4 2 4 Cut This option removes the currently selected object s from the Synoptic Display or Symbol and removes any end item attachments they might have and places them in a Clipboard area so they can be retrieved later 2 4 2 5 Paste The Paste option is only available once a Cut operation has been performed at least once since the GWDU was invoked OR since the GWDU last changed editing mode
29. be of type Bar Chart which is the default The Graph type can be changed using the Edit button see section 2 6 5 2 2 6 Icon An Icon consists of a GIF image file which is included in a Synoptic Display or Symbol with its original aspect ratio and size preserved To create an Icon click on the button marked Icon A sub menu will appear and ask whether the Icon shall be created from an image file Filename or whether it shall be cre ated from a selected rectangle of the Drawing Area Screen Area If Screen Area is selected the Message Line will prompt for two points to be picked to se lect the screen area from which to make an Icon Then the Icon will be created in the position where the screen area was selected and will be marked by one control point as an Icon can not be resized and will appear the same size regardless of any Zoom settings If Filename is selected the File Ops file selection box appears and prompts for a Unix filename of any GIF file Once a filename has been accepted the Message Line prompts for a single point to be picked to position the Icon in the Drawing Area 2 2 7 Image The Image object type is exactly the same as the Icon except that it is defined by two control points and can be resized It can also be specified from a GIF file or from a Screen Area To create an Image follow the same instructions as for an Icon except obviously to click on the Image
30. cked because it is in REVIEW status and you do not have CM rights Restart GWDU as user with the proper access rights The End Item could not be locked because it is in REVIEW status and you do not have CM rights Select other destination End Item with proper access rights and re try You have accessed an input End Item without the following necessary attributes lt Attribute name gt Supply mandatory attributes and then re attach End Item in GWDU Since no user home directory could be determined from the standard environment variable HOME the GWDU will use current directo ries for Settings files Check Unix environment and verify shell start up scripts The MDB End Item referenced has no discrete calibration data de fined in the MDB Supply missing data in MDB Then re attach End Item in GWDU The End Item referenced has no discrete calibration data defined Supply mandatory attributes and then re attach End Item in GWDU A Pathname was expected in an entry field but none was given Supply data MDB error When End Item lt name gt was accessed no type informa tion was returned Try to regenerate Symbol Report problem to MDB support User defined Symbol attached to Dynamic Subdrawings is not of type STATIC Choose a STATIC symbol The Pathname lt name gt was not found in the current scope of the MDB Verify the pathname given The Pathname Support utility is occupied by another calling instance
31. cribed in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Missing DataViews subdrawing An internal consistency check within the GWDU has failed Synoptic in dynamic Subdrawing Display Symbol internal data is corrupted invalid Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Point object could not be created Internal GWDU error during object creation Synoptic Display inter nal data is corrupted invalid This may be a result of shortage of memory Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Subdrawing could not be created Internal DV Tools error during subdrawing creation Synoptic Dis play internal data is corrupted invalid This may be a result of short age of memory Perform GWDU emergency exit as described in Appendix A GWDU Error Messages of the User Manual Symbol contained no drawing DataViews or MDB error when a loaded symbol from the MDB has no contents Fill Symbol End Item with contents or use another valid symbol Unable to load View Internal MDB or DataViews error in Load Save process Try loading another view Contact support if problem persists Unable to save View Internal MDB or DataViews error in Load Save process Try SaveAs to another End Item Contact support if problem persists WARNING MESSAGES Warnings are not fatal as the error messages There is no exit procedure
32. e Then re try Preview lt name gt Invalid min max range You have either expanded the range when only shrinking is allowed or you have reversed MIN and MAX To expand the range you must re attach the End Item This will reset the range to the End Item Engineering Range Invalid range Entered value is out of range Use value inside valid range lt expected range gt for lt item gt MDB Authorisation error The End Item could not be locked because the current user is not the GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 Opened as Read Only owner of the End Item Restart GWDU as user with the proper access rights MDB Authorisation error Save As failed MDB Privilege error Opened as Read Only MDB Privilege error Save As failed Missing mandatory attributes No HOME environment vari able specifying user s home di rectory Using current directory instead No discrete calibration data No discrete calibration data No Pathname given No type information found for End Item Only Static Symbols can be in cluded in a Subdrawing Pathname not found in current MDB scope Pathname Support busy Pathname Support reported no connection to Oracle The End Item could not be locked as the MDB user is not the owner of the End Item Select other destination End Item with proper access rights and re try The End Item could not be lo
33. e For Digit graphs a C format string can be supplied to the graph Unfortunately the be haviour is not always as described in the DataViews documentation The DV Tools han dling of C formats is not good and warnings are frequent on many format strings E g during preview with the d format the Digit graph does not use the format as described in the manual 2 6 6 Threshold Editing GWDU v3 0 PREVIEW SYNOPTIC Sis NS Choose a new threshoid 20222209 70 BEG a ToN ee re Suki si Add new threshold Son ingui rele Graph Tezi 3 Figure 9 The threshold editing dialogue allows the user to specify or modify the thresholds for a given MDB variable also known as data sources At run time the variables display colour in whatever output element they are in will change according to the variables value This al lows the MDB variable display to change colour according to danger or nominal limits being exceeded The threshold editing dialogue can be entered either from the Graph editing dialogue the Symbol editing dialogue or from the Dynamics editing dialogue Any present default MDB thresholds will be used as default and then the thresholds and the colours associated can be GSAF GWDU Development ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 USERS Manu
34. e end item name removed For example if the end item EURECA EGSE TEST ROVSINGTEST DISPLA Y_1 is in voked then the first time the user is prompted for an end item reference the string NEURECA EGSE TEST ROVSINGTEST will be given as pathname GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 2 1 2 GWDU Initial appearance 1 gt GWDU v4 1 0 EURECANEGSE TES T ROVSINGTES T NEW CCU SYNOPTIC Read Write 2 File Edit View WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY NEW 6 7 Object Name BE iy i Clk RTE Figure 2 GWDU main screen The designated points are as follows 1 The window title The title contains the tool version the full path name of the object edited and in square brackets the navigation scope CCU the mode of editing SYNOPTIC and access mode Read Write 2 The main menu Contains three pull down menus 3 The colour palette Used to select colour Just above the palette is the colour index showing the in dex for the selected colour Points to the object creation menu column The drawing area Message line A text field used to inform the user or to prompt the user for actions Attribute Menu Contains menus that lets the user specify object attributes e g line weight text font etc 8 Edit and object manipulation menu Contains menus that let the user edit settings for objects E g the end item attachments
35. e to the operation are displayed To select an end item first click on the pathname desired and then click on the Apply button The path name selected will then be transferred into the GWDU text field and the Pathname Support tool will iconise If the Reject button is pressed instead of the Apply button when the Pathname Support tool is active the Pathname Support tool will iconise and leave the GWDU text field unchanged Further help can be obtained by pressing the Help button in the Pathname Support tool 2 2 Object Creation By pressing one of the buttons in the Object creation menu on the left of the GWDU Display you can create all of the following types of objects 2 2 1 Primitive Elements Lines arcs rectangles ovals circles and polygons can be created by pressing the corre sponding button in the top 6 buttons of the Object creation menu These buttons depict a bitmap image of the object to be created The remaining two primitive elements Text and Vector Text are depicted by buttons labelled Text and Vtext respectively All of these objects are exactly the same as the corresponding DV Draw type and are created in the same way ie by clicking the appropriate number of control points in the Drawing Area Information on the number of points to click is given in the GWDU Message Line at the time of creation 2 2 2 Subdrawings Subdrawings are not quite the same as a DataViews subdrawing although
36. ed objects such as a ther mometer by using a bar chart Graph with all context features and outline de selected sur rounded by primitive elements such as lines or circles The symbol editor is invoked when a MDB symbol is loaded i e type WDU_GROUND_SYMBOL The symbol editor is almost exactly the same as the Synoptic Display editor with some restrictions on what can be done The restrictions are enforced automatically by the sensitivity of buttons and menu options Restricted functions are there fore not selectable Here is a summary of the restricted functions e No Symbols Subdrawings or Input objects can be added to a Symbol e Dynamics cannot be given to primitive objects e The File Merge menu option is not allowed e Display Parameters cannot be set e No MDB end items can be attached inside the Symbol Editor i e the Graph editing dia logue does not allow variables to be added to a Graph this is done in Synoptic Display editing mode e It is not possible to save a Symbol as a Synoptic Display or visa versa This enforces that Symbols are generated in separate libraries from Synoptic Displays 2 11 GWDU v2 Compatibility GWDU v3 and above uses the same MDB structures as GWDU v2 and is designed to be compatible It is however inevitable that there will be some minor problems when using pre v3 0 Synoptic Displays The following points should be noted when using v2 Synoptic Dis plays e If a v2 Synoptic Display contains
37. eferenced end items Display creation Ground Based Mission ee ee ee Database nam EEPEUUUESES EEEIEI EESE EESE HSEEE Enee ESEE ESEESE EISENI ESETE ESS EET E SEES EERE SEES EEEES ERE SEES SE RESET ELERESE EEEE EENE EER EEEE EEES EEEE EEEE EE ERTELE EESE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEE EEEE EEEE SEESE EEEE MDB Runtime Executor CGS HCI Figure 1 Product Environment In the runtime environment the CGS HCI executor handles the synoptic displays The ex ecutor is not part of this project but the data formats generated by the GWDU must be in ac cordance with the requirements of the executor These formats are described in the ICD 1 GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 2 GWDU OPERATION 2 1 GWDU Start up 2 1 1 Invocation The GWDU is invoked from the I MDB by selecting either a Synoptic Display of type WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY or a Symbol type WDU GROUND SYMBOL Then select Tools from the right hand mouse button menu and from the resulting tool list select GWDU Editor The GWDU will appear and load the specified Synoptic Display or Symbol The GWDU will then generate an initial Default Pathname based on the currently invoked end item location within the MDB The default pathname makes it easier for the user to input end item references during the editing session The initial default path is in fact the end item path string with th
38. ent in the MDB or is of the wrong type then an error message will appear Correct types are WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY and WDU_GROUND_SYMBOL Note that you can only save to an end item of the same type for example if you are editing a Symbol it is illegal to do a Save As to a Synoptic Display and visa versa If the MDB end item to be saved to cannot be locked a failure error message will appear and the Save As operation will be cancelled When in synoptic display editing mode if the synoptic display being edited is inconsistent the Consistency Report Dialogue will appear containing a report identifying the object s that are inconsistent See previous section for details 2 4 1 5 Load Settings Loading default objects attribute settings allow users to retrieve a predefined set of default object attribute settings for use in creating new elements of a display or a symbol The affected settings are the default object attributes of section 2 3 and the grid settings A dialog appears prompting the user for a file name of the settings to be loaded The file must be situated in the users home directory 2 4 1 6 Save Settings Saving the current default objects attribute settings allow the users to retrieve these settings at a later time A filename can be chosen for the settings The file is placed in the users home directory The affected settings are the default object attributes of section 2 and the grid set tings GSAF GWDU Developmen
39. he Grid on or off in the Drawing Area 2 4 3 3 Grid Spacing Color This option enables the user to change the spacing between the grid lines and the colour of GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 16 the grid The Grid Spacing amp Color popup appears Here the grid spacing can be entered in a World co ordinate range of 64 to 2047 To change the Grid Colour press the Grid Color button and then click on a colour in the Colour Palette Hit the Ok button to accept the new values 2 4 3 4 Report This option produces a textual description of the synoptic display or symbol being edited The report can be routed to any combination of the following Screen User specified file or Printer When selected the Report Destination Dialogue appears use the three toggle buttons Screen File and Printer to select where the report output should go If File is selected the user must specify a file name users home directory is default if no directory path is speci fied of the report destination file in the Report File text field If Printer is selected and the Printer text field is left blank the report will be printed to the system s default printer If either the file or printer destination could not be written to then an error message will appear The report will describe every object in the synoptic display or symbol Firstly information will be displayed to identify the
40. hese text objects to have their text edited Once complete hit lt ESC gt to finalise 2 5 3 Align This button moves the selected object s to the position of the mouse cursor in one of six ways by hitting the T key This aligns the object s left side to the mouse cursor position r key This aligns the object s right side to the mouse cursor position t key This aligns the object s top side to the mouse cursor position b key This aligns the object s bottom side to the mouse cursor position X key This aligns the object s anchor point s X position to the mouse cursor s X position GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 18 fy key This aligns the object s anchor point s Y position to the mouse cursor s Y position 2 5 4 Aspect This button forces an Image or Icon object to revert to its original aspect ration For example if an image is scaled in the X axis only selecting Aspect will return the image to its original size 2 5 5 Scale This button pops up the scale menu which will scale the selected object s as follows e Shrink This shrinks the selected object s by the amount specified by the Scale by op tion Scales evenly in X and Y planes e Expand This expands the selected object s by the amount specified by the Scale by option Scales evenly in X and
41. hold limit has changed and the change needs to be in corporated in the Synoptic Display Once a valid pathname has been entered for a Graph type its thresholds can be edited by pressing the Threshold button for that line The threshold editing dialogue is use in several areas and is described in section 2 6 6 Note it is only possible to add one data source MDB variable for each dynamic output ob ject graph in a dynamic symbol It is possible to OK the edit dialogue before entering all the required variable pathnames but a warning message s will appear If an invalid pathname is entered and the OK button is pressed the text field will keep this invalid value if the symbol is edited again immediately If not edited immediately the path name value will revert to its previous value The cancel button will undo any changes made during the edit session GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 25 2 6 4 Input Object Editing Object type selector Current type indicator v4 REPORT SYNOPTIC See a E ea es 3 WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY REPORT GECK Bl BUTTON PHEN ULD pene object Item 2 Teen 2 j a options Command and label editing area FIXED MENU Menu label and command editing area Figure 6 This figure shows the Input object editing dialogue Input objects allow the use
42. hreshold generation The threshold will then be deleted To exit threshold deleting mode click on the Done button The Close button will exit the Threshold editing dialogue GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 32 2 7 Primitive Element Dynamics Dynamics attributes button Detach button MDB end item mos ee i bject Name attachment pe Wane to drive dynamics Se ZX CSI LA Pits tes Pa N seoreeee 5 Dynamic Fore Color Erase Erase Object with Detach ore Dynamic attribute row of type threshold Method Background Color W Fore Color EURECA A INT_1 In Eso eo Out A AA A W Scale DEFAULT m fo E Out fi Foon ie treser A E Rotate DEFAULT n fo i Out i FYN Dynamic attribute row of type tranform ingui rant igr Cisplay Parenitis Figure 10 The Dynamics editing dialogue allows primitive DataViews elements to dynamically change their attributes according to a MDB variable e g to rotate an object depending on a MDB variable s value Dynamics are explained in detail in DV 2 To enter the Dynamics dialogue select the desired primitive element in the Drawing Area e g Line Rectangle Polygon Vtext etc and click on the Dynamics button To give a dynamic property to the selected object
43. i e SYN OPTIC or SYMBOL mode This option retrieves the contents of the Clipboard area and places it in to the Drawing Area in exactly the same position as when it was Cut Any end item references to objects pasted will be restored Multiple Paste s can be performed but beware if the same object s are pasted twice in the same display they will be stacked exactly on top of each other and it will be impossible to see how many objects are there until the upper objects the latest pasted are moved One useful feature of Cut and Paste is that objects can be pasted in to another display i e the Paste option is still available after an Open or Save As operation 2 4 2 6 Copy This option makes a copy including any end item references of the currently selected ob ject s and places them in the Drawing Area with a fixed offset from the original object s This offset is specified by the Cp Off option There is an offset so that the copied object s are placed just to the bottom right of the original object s 2 4 2 7 Cp Off This option specifies where to place copied objects relative to their originals Once selected the Message Line will prompt for two points to be picked which specifies this relative offset 2 4 2 8 Update This option updates all User Defined Symbols already included in the currently edited Syn optic Display with the latest symbol definitions stored in the MDB Therefore if the user modifies a symbol using
44. ick on the button marked Sym bol The Select end item popup appears A pathname of a User defined Symbol end item must be entered ie any MDB item of type WDU GROUND SYMBOL If the end item specified is not the correct type or is not found in the MDB then an error popup will appear when the Ok button is clicked If the end item is acceptable the Select end item popup disappears and the Message Line prompts for two points to be picked to define the size of the User defined Symbol object Pick two points in the Drawing Area to create the Symbol Note that the Symbol will maintain its aspect ratio regardless of the shape of the clicked rubber band rectangle Note once created Symbols have only one central control point They can then be selected de selected and moved like any other object see section 2 1 4 but they cannot be resized by dragging control points like for example a graph object can be Symbols can be resized us ing the Scale button see section 2 2 4 Input Objects Input objects comprise the four object types which at run time allow the Synoptic Display to perform HLCL commands or load another Display The four types are e Push Button This object has one label attached and when pressed at run time will cause the execution of a single HLCL command e Popup Menu This object appears the same as a Push Button with one label but when pressed at run time a Popup menu is generated by the HCI with
45. ile with a name as specified in the text entry field which contains a line for every variable present in the synoptic display together with its type Each line in the run file shall be in the following format VAR lt MDB variable pathname gt lt variable type gt lt valueI gt value2 value3 ENDVAR where lt variable type gt is either INT for all integer types including discrete variables that drive Subdrawings DOUBLE for all float types TEXT for all string types discrete or byte stream types Example User defined data for GWDU v4 PREVIEW SYNOPTIC Enter values ensuring correct type between the typenames and ENDVAR markers VAR EURECA EGSE TEST DATA INT_1 INT 50 25 0 11 125 ENDVAR VAR EURECA EGSE TEST DATA STATE 3 INT 2 3 4 5 6 7 ENDVAR VAR EURECA EGSE TEST DATA FLOAT_1 DOUBLE 4 5 9 76 0 65 ENDVAR VAR EURECA EGSE TEST DATA BYTE_1 TEXT MY_STRING STRING WITH SPACES TEST_STRING ENDVAR Further rules 1 Any lines not starting with VAR are ignored i e can be used as comments 2 A VAR line can span several lines in the text file as long there is always a terminating ENDVAR string 3 Strings entered as data values for string type variables can be with or without quotes but if the string has spaces in between then it must use quotes 4 For Subdrawing variables the values entered must correspond with the values expected by a synoptic display at run time to display the approp
46. iven attributes include Line Width Line Type Visibility etc Threshold attribute rows have the same In range specifying the MDB variable range but instead of an Out range they have a threshold button to enter the Threshold editing dialogue see section 2 6 4 The threshold dialogue is used to specify the discrete changes to be applied to the object for example the foreground colour of the object The threshold editing dialogue is used in exactly the same way for colour changing attrib utes as described in section 2 6 6 but it varies slightly for other attributes such as Line Type or Line Width Once a threshold has been added using the Slider or the Text Field the threshold value can be selected by clicking on the new threshold in the thresh old drawing area For example if Line Type is selected to choose the line type for each threshold click on the threshold to change in the drawing area until the correct line type is displayed e TRANSFORM Transform dynamic attributes change the object linearly according to the driving MDB variable e g Rotate The MDB variable s range would map directly to a range of rotation therefore causing a smooth rotation Other transform driven attributes include Scale Abs X Move Abs Y Move etc Transform attribute rows contain text fields that show and can change the display range of the MDB variable marked In and the
47. nge cannot be changed for the end item variable Var Max This is the engineering range high value for the variable Can be edited but only lowered see above Lin Log Scale Toggle button to specify a Linear or a Logarithmic scale for the variable Thresholds Displays the thresholds for the variable if any If clicked upon this button will enter the threshold editing dialogue for this variable see section Line Symbol This toggle button is used to select the symbol to plot on the line in line graphs to distinguish between multiple variable plots Line Type This toggle button specifies the line type to plot for line graphs DEL button Deletes the variable from the graph The Accept button will make permanent the changes from the editing session The Cancel button will discard the changes from the editing session 2 6 5 1 Special notes on Graph Objects This section describes some of the less obvious rules to graph editing in the GWDU and ex ceptions from the DataViews documentation and the Dvdraw behaviour The maximum number of variables that can be attached to a graph varies depending on the type of the graph A warning message will indicate when this limit has been reached Some graph types require more than one variable or have some special restrictions such as having to have all variables having the same range These restrictions are generally documented in DV 2 The preview facility will issue warnings if these rules
48. object such as type label and position co ordinates then the objects attributes and end item attachments will be displayed Any inconsistencies for a synoptic display will also be reported next to the offending ob ject s Notes on the reporting of object attributes e Object colours are given as a colour index value This is the index value that is displayed when choosing a colour from the GWDU colour palette e Attributes such as Line type or Line width are specified as a number This is the posi tion number in the appropriate menu of the selected attribute e g if line type 4 is reported this mean the fourth entry in the line type attribute pull down menu e Some attributes are related purely to DataViews therefore if an attribute name appears which is unfamiliar then the DataViews documentation should be consulted DV 2 2 4 3 5 Snap This Snap toggle button option turns automatic grid snap on or off i e when on if an object is placed or moved it can only be placed on an exact grid point 2 4 3 6 Zoom The Zoom option has several sub options available e Pan This option allows the user to select a point in the Drawing Area which will then be come the centre of the view e Zoom in This will Zoom in to the Drawing Area by the amount specified by the Zoom By option e Zoom out This will Zoom Out from the Drawing Area by the amount specified by the GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING
49. object with the left hand mouse button The object is then denoted by control points the number of which depend on the type of object All objects have a main control point which is used to move the object click on this point once with the left button move the object then click again to place the object If an object has more than one control point it can be resized by clicking on the appropriate point and dragging the object to the correct size and then clicking again to finalise the size User defined symbols get a Selection Frame drawn around the bounding box of all included symbols This allows the user to determine the extent and contents of a symbol The right hand button acts as a cancel button in many occasions for example when creating an object with a rubberband the right button will cancel the create or in some cases will terminate the create e g for polygon creation The right hand mouse button will also remove any object selections when clicked in the Drawing Area 2 1 5 Default MDB Pathname and the Pathname Support Tool There are several places within the GWDU where the user has to enter an MDB pathname as an end item reference For example to make an end item attachment or just to load another synoptic display or symbol The GWDU provides two means of user assistance for this proc ess A default pathname is always suggested The initial suggestion is the pathname of the syn optic display or symbol being edited
50. ontrol Point Polygon aD C e raa cono Poin ozone 2 9 2 Display Parameters The display parameters allow the user to specify the initial size of the Synoptic Display when executed at run time and also the refresh rate of the Display i e the rate at which to refresh the objects data input Click on the Display Parameters button to bring up the Display Parameters popup This popup contains three text fields e Display Width Enter a pixel value between 1 and 1200 default 800 e Display Height Enter a pixel value between 1 and 1200 default 600 e Refresh Rate Enter a value between 1 and 10 seconds default 1 Click on OK to accept the changes or Cancel to discard changes GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 37 2 10 Symbol Editing Mode The Symbol Editor facilitates the generation of libraries of user defined symbols for common use These symbols can be created and edited in the Symbol Editor and then at a later stage added to a Synoptic Display There are two types of Symbol STATIC and DYNAMIC Static symbols contain only primitive objects i e lines circles polygons text images and icons etc These primitives can allow the generation of standard symbol for example electrical circuit symbols DYNAMIC symbols can contain any objects allowed in STATIC symbols and Graphs i e output ele ments DYNAMIC symbols can be used to create commonly us
51. output range marked Out For example the In range could specify a MDB variable range of 0 to 10 and the Out range could be set to 0 to 360 In this case the Rotate attribute would cause the complete rotation of the object at run time if the MDB variable passed through its entire range There is a DEL button on each dynamic attribute row to remove that dynamic attribute from the object Use the scroll bars on the bottom of the Dynamics dialogue to locate the button The Erase Method button selects the erase method for the object It defines how the object redraws itself if at all at run time See DV 2 for specific details of each individual erase method The Detach button removes all dynamics attributes all the dynamic attribute rows from the object Click on the Close button to exit the dynamics dialogue 2 8 Preview The preview function allows the user to animate a Synoptic Display or a Symbol to simulate its behaviour at run time GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 34 The previewer can be started by clicking on the Run button from the GWDU left hand menu If no objects were selected when the Run button was selected then all objects in the Synop tic Display or Symbol will be previewed otherwise just the selected object s will be pre viewed If any of the objects selected for the preview have erroneous settings and a
52. ponding HLCL command will be executed When this object type is selected the Command and label editing area contains one text field to enter a label which appears on the popup button The Menu label and command edit ing area is now sensitive and can be used to add menu items to the popup menu Clicking on the Add Variable button will create a row of two text fields one to enter the label for the menu option and the other to enter the corresponding HLCL command to be executed when that option is selected This process can be repeated to add up to a maximum of 10 menu items The Delete button on each label command row will delete the row and hence the menu option PICTURE SELECT This is a simple push button that when pressed at run time will cause another pre specified Synoptic Display to be loaded and executed replacing the cur rent Synoptic Display When this object type is selected the Command and label editing area contains two text fields one to enter a label which appears on the picture select button and one to enter the MDB pathname of the Synoptic Display to switch to when pressed at run time An error popup will appear if the pathname entered is not present or is not of the correct type i e WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY once the edit dialogue has been accepted The Menu label and command editing area is insensitive and does not do anything for this object type FIXED MENU This is a menu that appears with all its op
53. r to incorpo rate HLCL commands and actions i e swapping to a new synoptic display at run time in to a Synoptic Display The default Input object type created by the Input is BUTTON To enter the editing dialogue select the Input object and click on the Edit button The top left area of this dialogue is used to select the one of the four possible types of Input object i e BUTTON POPUP MENU PICTURE SELECT and FIXED MENU The Cur rent type indicator button displays the current object type To select the desired type simply click on the appropriate button The edit dialogue alters slightly depending on which Input object type is selected The fol lowing describes each Input object type e BUTTON This is a simple push button that when pressed at run time causes an HLCL command to be executed When this object type is selected the Command and label ed GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 26 iting area contains two text fields one to enter a label which appears on the push button and one to enter the HLCL command to be executed The Menu label and command ed iting area is insensitive and does not do anything for this object type POPUP MENU This appears on the screen at run time in a similar way as the BUTTON However when it is pressed a popup menu appears with up to 10 items The desired en try can then be selected and the corres
54. re try Preview lt number gt Unable to read all data from set For some unknown reason the reading of settings from the specified tings file lt fi lename gt file was unsuccessful Setting not changed The file should be deleted manually from an operation system shell Unable to write all data to set For some unknown reason the writing of settings to the specified file tings file lt filename gt was unsuccessful The file should not be used to load settings again Verify filename and check operating system file system state Unsuccessful PNS Filter con An unexpected error occurred during construction of PNS filter in struction cluding user defined types End Item list presented in pathname support may be incomplete Re port the incident and confirm End Item name manually INVOCATION MESSAGES Invocation messages are not window popup messages These messages are sent to the stan dard output of the program which is the command tool that either e Invoked the GWDU e Invoked the GWDU_SE start up script e Invoked the I MDB These messages are the result of using wrong settings or illegal command line parameters for the GWDU Something that is very unlikely using I MDB GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 All possible messages are listed below Invocation Error Cause and Corrective action Error in End Item type specifi The End Item
55. rec tangle sets the object foreground colour the next rectangle sets the object background colour the next sets the Drawing background colour and the last outer rectangle sets the Off Drawing colour ie the area outside the 32K by 32K DataViews Drawing Area For included symbols and subdrawings setting the colour attributes affect all contained sub objects The Object Name indicator will show the DataViews object name if any of the selected object s in a synoptic display Objects are not currently named in the GWDU and they can not be set from within the GWDU However this display field is left in for future use where imported objects from DV Draw could be named within the scope of the Import facility rules see section 2 4 1 2 GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 11 2 4 Pull Down Menu Options 2 4 1 File 2 4 1 1 Open This option loads a new Synoptic Display or Symbol in to the GWDU editor replacing the current MDB end item being edited It is possible to switch editing mode from SYNOPTIC to SYMBOL and visa versa when performing an Open this is done automatically depend ing on the end item type loaded The Select end item popup appears Enter the pathname of the desired MDB end item to load If the entered end item is not present in the MDB or is of the wrong type then an error message will appear Correct types are WDU_GROUND_SYNOPTIC_DISPLAY and
56. red To add a threshold via method II move the slider with the mouse cursor keeping the left mouse button pressed down to the desired value The up and down arrow keys can be used at this stage to specify a more precise value Then release the mouse button and se lect a colour from the Colour Palette for the new threshold to have Multiple thresholds can be created once in this mode To exit the Add threshold popup click on the Done button e Change Threshold This button allows the colour for a particular threshold to be changed Once selected click on the area in the Threshold drawing area that should change colour i e in between two threshold levels Then click on a colour from the Col our Palette to change the threshold s colour As the mouse cursor is moved around the palette before a colour is selected the threshold changes colour according to the colour the mouse cursor is over in the palette to preview the change To exit threshold changing mode click on the Done button e Delete Value This button allows threshold values to be deleted Once selected you must click with the mouse cursor either above or below the threshold to be deleted Observe the GWDU Message Line for a prompt to say whether to pick below or above the threshold to be deleted for a particular instance This difference depends on where the threshold edit ing dialogue was entered from a characteristic of GECK due to DataViews using two methods of t
57. riate symbol see ICD 1 During an automatic preview whenever a variable comes to the end of its user specified data it reverts back to the start again hence continually repeating the data cycle The Reset Run File button will reset all variables to the start value of their user defined data A warning message will be produced if not all the variables in a display are supplied with data from the run file but running will still be possible Similarly a warning message will appear when generating a template file if there are DEFAULT variables present in the dis play i e not connected to MDB variables GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 36 2 9 Miscellaneous 2 9 1 Drawing Area Key Events The following list shows the mapping between keys and events when editing in the Drawing Area See DV 2 for a detailed explanation of these DataViews concepts lt Right Hand Cancels current selection Also known as lt QUIT gt Mouse Button gt lt Left Hand Mouse Selects object Button gt Addobject to selected group Add object to selected group to selected group Remove object from selected group c Displays the current cursor position X Y co ordinates in the GWDU Mes sage Line Merge Control Point Polygon editing Merse Control Point Polygon editing T Soin Comot point Poseo eino O 5 base conor pam Poiyeon sing FEER Insert C
58. s The Run File did not contain either Pathname or type name for a Da taViews variable The line number indicates which line VAR ENDVAR of the Run File is invalid Use standard editor to correct Run File Then re try Preview The activated Popup menu has no sub menu entries Edit display to contain sub menus The number of user defined items does not allow for all data items to be stored Reduce number of data input values for each parameter The End Item specified is not of the correct type Only the one re ported type is legal in this context Use the correct type of End Item refer to User Manual The End Item specified is not of the correct type This message oc curs when there are many possible legal types Use the correct type of End Item refer to User Manual A DataViews variable contained in the Synoptic Display does not have a corresponding defintion VAR ENDVAR statement in the Run File Use standard editor to correct Run File Then re try Preview The operation was aborted since the resulting file name is exceeding 256 characters Check HOME directory and file name and use a shorter name The Dynamic Subdrawing contained more than states 31 excluding other Only 31 states are accepted Reduce the number of states No more Input objects or commands can be added as the limit has been reached None No more variables can be added for that particular Graph None The Symbol editing di
59. s a result cannot be drawn a DataViews generated error message will appear to inform of the error to allow corrective action Most errors are caused by the object not being sized big enough to display all the required data It is therefore a good idea to perform a preview before saving the synoptic display Once the Run dialogue appears there are two ways of manually providing data to the ob jects e Slider The slider has a scale of 0 to 100 This means whatever value is given on the slider will be the value fed to all objects as a percentage of the objects ranges The value given will be between the objects minimum and maximum values For example if 75 is selected from the slider a Bar chart with a range 10 to 10 would be fed a value of 5 Therefore moving the slider from 0 to 100 will animate all objects from their minimum values to their maximums e Scatter button When the Scatter button is pressed one set of random data is sent to all objects in the preview screen The random data will be within the objects minimum and maximum limits There are also Start and Stop buttons which start and stop automated previewing If no user defined run file is specified for providing data random data is passed to all objects at the rate specified in the Display Parameter s refresh rate field see section 2 9 2 until the Stop button is pressed This is effectively the same as the Scatter button being pressed at the specified refre
60. sh rate Input objects in a synoptic display can be tested during a preview session HLCL commands that are selected by Push Button Pop Menu or Fixed Menu objects will be written to stan dard output the invoking shell If a Picture Selection Marker object PSM is pressed then the preview will switch to previewing the synoptic display pointed to by the PSM object However if acquiring data from a user defined file the animation of the new display may look frozen due to incompatibilities between input variables count and types in the two dis plays To exit the Run dialogue click on the Close button 2 8 1 User Defined Run Files If the Run File toggle button is selected when the Start button is pressed previewing will take place with data from a user defined file The user file is read each time that the Start button is pressed The user file is specified in the text entry field next to the Run File toggle button A Unix pathname must be entered to point to the text file to supply the data The user file must con tain a list of values for every unique MDB pathname that provides to the synoptic display The user file must adhere to the specific format described below The Make Run File Tem plate button can be used to generate a template run file for the synoptic display being run It GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 35 will produce a text f
61. t CDU Configuration Data Unit CGS Columbus Ground System CGSI Columbus Ground System Infrastructure GSAF Ground Software Avionics Facility DASA Daimler Benz Aerospace the customer GWDU Ground Window Definition Utility HCI Human Computer Interface CGS SW product IMDB Interactive MDB Browser ICD Interface Control Document MDA Mission Database Application MDB Mission Database GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 1 4 References DV 1 DataViews v9 7 Graphical Editor Construction Kit Users Guide August 1995 Doc No 820 00077 00 Revision B DV 2 DataViews v9 7 DV Draw Users Guide July 1995 Doc No 820 00013 00 Revision B DV 3 DataViews v9 7 DV Tools Reference Manual July 1995 Doc No 820 00017 00 Revision B DV 4 DataViews v9 7 Technical Overview July 1995 Doc No 820 00116 00 Revision B 1 5 Applicable Documents ICD 1 GWDU ICD 27 05 98 Issue 1 3 ICD 114 001 ROV SPE 1 GWDU Product Requirement Specification COL RIBRE SPE 0035 Is sue 4 04 07 97 1 6 Overview The following sections outline the GWDU specific modifications to the XDGeck v3 1 dem onstration editor DV 1 chapter5 Much of the GWDU functionality is identical to that available within the commercially available DV Draw editor DV 2 This functionality will not be repeated in this document This document will concentrate on the user interface dif ferences of the GWD
62. t USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 13 2 4 1 7 Quit The Quit option exits the GWDU Firstly a confirmation popup appears to confirm is an exit is really desired Choosing No from this popup will return to the editing session Choosing Yes will exit the GWDU If the MDB end item being edited has been modified since the last save a View Modified popup will appear asking if the existing end item should be saved before exiting the GWDU If No is selected the changes will be lost if Yes is selected the end item will be saved If the end item being edited is in Read Only mode then the Select end items popup will appear so that it can be saved with another name if desired The GWDU can be quitted from the standard title bar popup menu This menu can be in voked in situations where the GWDU will insist on continuing A warning popup will inform that the current editing process must be completed before you can quit the GWDU 2 4 2 Edit 2 4 2 1 Group The Group option allows one or more objects to be grouped in a selection There are 6 avail able Group options e Part In Group any objects within or partly within a user definable clicked rectangle on the Drawing Area e All In Group only objects completely within the user selected rectangle e All Out Group only objects completely outside the user selected rectangle e Part Out Group only objects outside or p
63. t type If an invalid pathname is entered and the OK button is pressed the text field will keep this invalid value if the subdrawing is edited again immediately If not edited immediately the path name value will revert to its previous value A static symbol end item must be entered for the DEFAULT STATE in a subdrawing At run time this symbol will be used if a raw value is received which does not map on to any of the up to 31 possible mapped state codes for the discrete end item GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 22 To change the discrete variable that drives the subdrawing simply change the State code text field to another pathname of a discrete variable from the MDB then click on the OK button The edit dialogue will not disappear in this case because the variable has been changed it will instead update the State name and End item fields according to the new variable as the number of states of the new variable may be different from the last variable If the new variable has more states than the previous variable the symbol pathnames already entered will be kept and the extra states must have symbol pathnames attached If the new variable has fewer states than the previous variable then the extra symbol pathnames will be discarded It is possible to OK the edit dialogue before entering all the required symbol pathnames
64. the thresholds etc and the size of the objects NYDN The application title will show the MDB end item loaded and will also show whether the editor is in SYNOPTIC or SYMBOL mode depending on whether a Synoptic Display or a GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 Symbol has been loaded The next sections will concentrate on SYNOPTIC editing mode but there will be a dedicated section section 2 10 for SYMBOL editing mode 2 1 3 MDB End Item Locking If the specified MDB end item cannot be locked for editing a message will appear in a warning popup informing of the reason why Once the popup is cleared by clicking on the Ok button the end item may be edited as normal but it cannot be saved using the File Save menu option this option will be greyed out The end item will then be in Read Only mode The end item can be saved as another pre existing end item in the MDB using the File Save As menu option However the new end item must be of the same type as the originally loaded end item and itself must be able to be locked otherwise an error popup will appear 2 1 4 General Editing Commands The general editing procedures for the GWDU editor are very similar to that of DV Draw DV 2 with respect to object creation selecting objects moving objects etc To select an object click on the object either in the centre or on its boundary depending on the type of
65. they use the same principles The GWDU Subdrawing s appearance must be driven by a variable of discrete type ie EGSE_DISCRETE_MEASUREMENT or EGSE_DISCRETE_SW_VARIABLE or a user defined compatible type For every state of this discrete variable a user defined sym bol end item must be specified At run time whenever the variable has a particular value the corresponding symbol for that state will be displayed To create a Subdrawing click on the button marked Subdrawing The Select end item GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 popup appears A pathname of a discrete type end item must be entered If the end item specified is not the correct type or is not found in the MDB then an error popup will appear when the Ok button is clicked If the end item is acceptable the Select end item popup disappears and the Message Line prompts for two points to be picked to define the size of the Subdrawing object Pick two points in the Drawing Area to create the Subdrawing 2 2 3 User Defined Symbols User defined Symbols are created in the Symbol Editor see section 2 10 They are used to create a common library of frequently used symbols for building synoptic displays For ex ample electrical circuitry can be displayed consistently by creating each electrical compo nent as a User defined Symbol To include a User defined Symbol in a Synoptic Display cl
66. tions displayed on the screen at run time as opposed to the POPUP MENU which only displays its menu options once it has been pressed The menu can have up to 10 items each one with a label and a corre sponding HLCL command to execute at run time when that item is selected The menu items are added in exactly the same way as for the POPUP MENU Note the FIXED MENU has no overall label unlike the POPUP menu only a label for each menu item Notes The maximum allowable length for an HLCL command is 1024 characters The maximum allowable length for the label fields is 20 characters These fields are limited so it is not possible to enter more The default type of Input object is PUSH BUTTON A FIXED MENU containing no commands has no information whatsoever to store within it If the input object edit dia logue is accepted with the Accept button when editing a FIXED MENU that has no HLCL commands attached the FIXED MENU will revert to the default input object type i e PUSH BUTTON The Standard GECK input object options are standard editing features which are fully explained in DV 2 GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 27 The Accept button will make permanent the changes from the editing session The Cancel button will discard the changes from the editing session 2 6 5 Graph Object Editing Var Max Lin Log Scale Thresholds Line Symbol Line Type
67. tomatically when the edit dialogue is accepted if at least one valid MDB variable has been added The Add Variable button can be used to add a variable or if the default variable is still pre sent that variable can be replaced by clicking on the button marked DEFAULT Both these methods will cause the Select end item popup to appear Enter a valid MDB variable pathname and select OK If an invalid pathname is entered an error will appear and an other chance to enter a valid pathname will be given Once a new variable has been accepted a row is created or replaced if the variable was be ing replaced The pathname is displayed in a compressed form in a button on the far left of the variable row The variable row contains the following information e The variable button itself which shows the pathname of the MDB variable When a graph a just created there is only one default variable and the word DEFAULT appears in the GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 29 button This button can be used to replace the MDB variable with another When pressed the Select end item popup appears and another pathname can be entered Var Min This is the engineering range low value for the variable Can be edited but only to a larger value resulting in a smaller display range zoom since no values outside the engineering range will ever occur The engineering ra
68. up to 10 menu options to select from each one causing an HLCL command to be executed e Picture Select This object also appears the same as a Push Button with one label but when pressed at run time it causes the HCI to load in another Synoptic Display e Fixed Menu This object is a fixed menu with up to 10 menu options which are fixed on the Display and visible and selectable all the times Each option will cause the execution of a single HLCL command To create any of the above Input objects click on the button marked Input The Message Line will then prompt for two points to be picked to select the size of the object in the Drawing Area The newly created object will by default be labelled Push Button and will be of Push Button type To change the type of the Input object or to edit its details the GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 Edit top level GWDU button must be selected see section b 2 2 5 Graph Output Objects Graph Output objects are pre defined output objects that display formatted data from a MDB end item for example Bar Charts Line Graphs and Text Graphs There are many variations of graph types To create a Graph Object click on the button marked Graph The Message Line will prompt for two points to be picked to define the size of the Graph in the Drawing Area Once placed in the Drawing Area the Graph will
69. user defined symbols they will appear in the v3 0 and above Synoptic Display exactly the same but they will lose their grouping as a Symbol i e the individual elements that make up the symbol will be in the Synoptic Display on their own This makes the Update function impossible for these old Symbols To perform an Update simply delete the elements of the Symbol and re include the Symbol again e There may be some colour problems between v2 and v3 0 and above due to differing col our palettes used by the two different GWDU implementations GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 38 e GWDU v2 has a very limited colour palette It may be necessary to adjust the background colour of a v2 Synoptic Display when loading in to the v3 and above GWDU 2 12 Backwards compatibility GWDU v4 1 1 introduces the concept of incomplete end items The Completion State of an end item variable is determined on the time of attachment to the display This state is then stored with the display and not updated until the end item is re attached The Completion State is not present in displays made with previous GWDU versions Thus all end items are considered complete in displays saved from previous versions Not even loading these display into GWDU version 4 1 1 will update completion states correctly Each end item in such a display must be re attached one by one GSAF GWDU Development
70. without the end item name As the user selects other pathnames as end item references these pathnames are used as default pathnames for the following inputs In other word the default pathname follows the pathname latest selected by the user The GWDU provides a link to the Pathname Support tool in every place where an MDB GSAF GWDU Development USERS Manual ROVSING A S Doc No UM 114 001 ROV Issue 1 4 Date 24 February 1999 pathname can be entered This is effectively an end item browser that shows all the type compatible and items available in the current scope i e the open CDU or CCU The user can then choose a pathname from the list provided to fill the text field in the GWDU dia logues that require a pathname without having to type the pathname Every GWDU dialogue containing text fields requiring pathnames has a Pathname Sup port button If the dialogue has only one pathname text field just press the button to invoke the Pathname Support tool In dialogues with multiple text fields select the pathname field to be filled in by clicking in it with the mouse and then pressing the Pathname Support button The Pathname Support tool may take a while to appear the first time it is used but after that the Pathname Support tool just iconises after use until it is used the next time The Pathname Support tool will provide a list of end item pathnames to choose from which is context sen sitive i e only the end item types applicabl

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