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Desktop Menu Bar

The functions of the menus contained on the menu bar are described in chapt. 3 of this manual.

A menu is opened if

● the menu name is clicked on with the left mouse button.

The menu is now opened.

Selecting an option:

● Click on menu option with the left mouse button.

The menu closes and the selected function is executed.

Main Menu (to be used in the case of problems in the LC program, following any changes to the system

settings and to „shut down" the computer)

The Main Menu ("Root Menu") is displayed if

● the right (or untere) screen border is clicked on with the left mouse button thereby keeping the

mouse button depressed. (The menu remains displayed until the mouse button is released

again).

Selecting an option:

● Hold down mouse button and position mouse cursor on desired menu option, then release mouse

button.

The menu is closed and the selected function is executed.

Menu options Meaning

LC-Start line computer program starting after "LR-End" (see

page 2 - 54)

LC-End closing desktop and terminating Line Computer program

Mount CD To integrate the CD ROM drive into the file system in order to allow CDs to be

accessed from outside the LC program (after “LC End”)

(e.g. to install Windows NT on the station computer).

Unmount CD To remove the CD ROM drive from the file system.

NOTE

On opening the Data Manager (see chapt. 4, section 4.3) the CD ROM drive will be automatically

“mounted” and may be “unmounted” again by using "Unmount CD".

Logout terminating line computer working session

Shutdown terminating line computer session and "running down" computer

(see

section 2.1.3)

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2.2.3 Window Operations

Opening a Window

To be able to work in a window, it must first be opened.

● Double-click on the icon, or in the case of a text display, the respective name of the window you

wish to open. The window is opened in the foreground and is active.

NOTE

On the desktop (root window) you need to click on the icon of the application program only one time.

Moving a Window

When a new window is opened it may partially conceal other windows. To be able to nevertheless see all

information of the windows underneath, the windows can be moved around the screen to different positions.

● Click on title bar by pressing and holding left mouse button.

● Slide the mouse on your desktop thus dragging the window to the new position. When so doing,

the mouse cursor has an x shape. When the window is moved only the outline of the window is

displayed.

● Release the mouse button. The window now appears at the new position.

Activating a Window

To be able to work in a window, it must be active. Also those windows can be activated that are positioned

in the background underneath other windows and which are partially concealed.

● Click anywhere inside window you wish to activate. The mouse cursor changes to an arrowhead

when so doing. The selected window jumps to the foreground and is active, whereas the pre-

viously active window is inactive.

● The window frame of the active window in the foreground has a different color than those of the

inactive windows which have a light-gray frame.

Rearranging Window Stack

To move a window to the lowermost position within a stack of windows, the following keys of the keyboard

must be used:

● Press and hold Alt key and simultaneously press Tab key one time to move the topmost window

to the lowermost position in each case.

Repeat the step "press Tab key one time" with the Alt key pressed, until the desired window is in

lowermost position within the stack.

To move a window which is in a lower position to the top again, the following keys of the keyboard must be

used:

● Press and hold Alt and Shift keys, simultaneously pressing Tab key one time to move the lower-

most window to the topmost position in each case.

Repeat the step "press Tab key one time" with the Alt and Shift keys pressed, until the desired

window is in topmost position within the stack.

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Changing a Window into an Icon (Minimizing)

As you work, your screen can become cluttered with windows. This can be avoided by iconifying (minimizing)

windows. To minimize a window, activate FILE --> Iconify on the menu. When so doing, the minimized

window is not closed, but the programs continue to execute in an iconified window.

● In the window to be minimized select menu option FILE --> Iconify.

The window immediately changes into an icon and appears on the desktop on a colored back-

ground. The colored icon is an indication that the window has been minimized.

By clicking on the icon the window is restored to its previous size.

NOTE

The menu option Iconify is not available in all windows so that only some of the windows can be

minimized.

Scrolling Contents of a Window

When a display area contains more information than can fit in a window, vertical and horizontal scroll bars

are provided along the right and bottom edges of a display area (see

Fig. 2.2.2).

At each end of the scroll bars arrow buttons are provided and a rectangular scroll box moves within the

scroll bars between the arrow buttons. The position of the scroll box indicates which portion of the file can

currently be seen in the window. Otherwise invisible file contents can thus come into view by using the

elements of the scroll bar.

Scrolling line-by-line

● Click on the up or down arrow button in the right scroll bar by pressing left mouse button. With

each click of the mouse the contents of the window move up or down by one line. The scroll box

reflecting the relative position within a document moves up or down accordingly.

Continuous scrolling:

● Click on the down arrow button in the right scroll bar by pressing the left mouse button; keep

mouse button depressed until scrolling operation is terminated or specific location has been

reached.

● Release mouse button. The last part of the file or the desired section is displayed in the window.

● Moving the scroll box:

● With the mouse cursor point at the scroll box in the right scroll bar, click with the left mouse button

and keeping the mouse button depressed slowly move mouse cursor in upward or downward

direction.

Thus the scroll box is moved within the scroll bar and parallel to it the contents of the file.

● Release mouse button once the desired file contents come into view inside the window.

Scrolling to the left/right

● Proceed as for scrolling up/down, but using the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom edge of the

window.