developer.GUI.standards

Purpose: codify standards for the GUI.

Audience: Autoplot developers

Introduction

It's essential that standards be used in the GUI, and this is to identify a standard and to outline the ad-hoc rules used so far.

Menubar

An ellipses (...) after a menu bar item

An ellipsis (...) after a menu bar item name means that an additional dialog will be presented to get more information, and this action can be cancelled. The action may be to bring up a tool (Tools→Events List) which is used to perform actions. This should not have an ellipsis.

→ should be used to identify menu bar items

→ should be used to identify menu bar items, like [menubar]→Tools→Events List. The [] indicates the known position which the human operator recognizes.