Getting Started with AVEVA E3D
Functions : Basic GUI Features : Windows
Windows
Windows are used both to display information and to allow you to enter new data. Windows typically comprise an arrangement of buttons of various types, text-boxes, and scrollable lists. Input to a window is usually via a combination of mouse and keyboard.
While you have access to a window, you can change a setting, return to the initial values, accept and act on the current data, or cancel the window without applying any changes, according to the nature of the window
Windows can include any of the following:
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Text Boxes
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Drop-down Lists
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Radio Buttons
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Check Boxes
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Scrollable Lists
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Action Buttons
Text Boxes
Text boxes are the areas where you can type in alphanumeric data such as names or dimensions. A text box will usually have a label to tell you what to enter.
When you first open a window which contains text boxes, the first text-box on the window is current and a text editing cursor (a vertical bar) is displayed in the box. A text-box often contains a default entry (such as ‘unset’) when first displayed. Some text boxes accept only text or only numeric data, and entries with the wrong type of data are not accepted.
To enter data into a text box:
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Click in the box to insert the text editing cursor
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Type in the required data, editing any existing entry as necessary. (The user may need to delete the existing entry first.)
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When you have finished, confirm the entry by pressing the Enter (or Return) key. Any text box with an unconfirmed setting is highlighted by a yellow background.
Drop-down Lists
Drop-down lists lets you choose one option from a multiple selection. The list will usually have a label to tell you what you are setting and will show the current selection.
To change the setting, click on the down arrow or button face to reveal the full list of available options, then pick the required option.
Radio Buttons
Radio buttons are used to select one option, from a group of options. The selection is mutually exclusive, so that selecting one option deselects others in that group automatically.
 
Option selected
Option not selected
To change the selected radio button in a group, click the required button.
Check Boxes
Check boxes are used to switch an option between two states, typically set and unset. Unlike radio buttons, they do not interact, so that you can set any combination of check boxes at the same time.
 
Set
Unset
Scrollable Lists
A scrollable list is displayed as a vertical list of options within a window, with vertical and horizontal scroll bars along its sides. To select an option, click on a line, the selected line is highlighted.
Some scrollable lists allows you to make only a single selection, so that selecting any option deselects all others automatically. Other lists allow you to make multiple selections, with all selected options highlighted simultaneously. You can deselect a highlighted option in a multiple-choice list, by clicking on it again (repeated clicks toggle a selection).
Action Buttons
Most windows include one or more action buttons, use these to tell AVEVA E3D™ what to do with the details entered in the window.The common action buttons are:
Tells the system to accept the current window settings, and closes the window.
Cancels any changes you have made to the window, and closes the window.
Tells the system to accept the current window settings, and leaves the window displayed for further use.
Cancels any changes you have made to the window, and leaves the window displayed for further use.
Closes the window, keeping the current settings.
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