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18.3 Elements of the Bernese Menu Window
was generated by the program. Output and error files may also be viewed using the dropdown
menus ”Menu>Service>Browse program output” and ”Menu>Service>Browse error message”. For more
details on job output and error handling see Section 18.6.
Using the Rer^un button the panels for the last executed program may be displayed again
making it unnecessary to navigate every time through the drop-down menus to find the
program. This is particularly useful if a program is executed several times with a few
options modified.
18.3.3 Status Bar
The status bar at the bottom of the menu window displays information specific to the
selected processing setup. It shows the user name, the active campaign, the current year
and session, job identifier (if defined), and the filename of the displayed program panel.
Session ($S+0), year ($Y+0), and job identifier ($J) are labeled with the corresponding
names of the menu variables (see Section 18.5.1). Active campaign and current session may
be changed using the drop-down menus ”Menu>Campaign>Select active campaign” and ”Menu>Configure
>Set session/compute date” respectively (see Sections 3.1 and 3.3).
18.3.4 Program Panels
The main task of the menu system is to start the Bernese main programs and to handle
their input options. The input options are stored in user-specific input files (one file per
main program in directory ${U}/PAN). Within each input file the options are organized in
so-called panels.
A panel contains a set of options which are displayed together and which are logically
related. For one Bernese program usually a number of panels are provided, each having
an unambiguous title. Using the command buttons ^Top, ^Prev, and ^Next the user can
proceed from one panel to the next, return to the previous panel, or even to the primary
(top) panel as many times as wished. Already when navigating through the panels the menu
system checks the user’s input. If necessary, it warns the user about non-existing files, long
filenames 1 , missing or obviously wrong options, etc. The corresponding message box can be
quit either with the Back button to return to the input file mask or with the Ignore button
to force the menu to accept the entry. Of course, at this stage it is not possible to check
everything (e.g., the selected files may exist but their content may be entirely wrong). The
main program checks the values from the input files again when reading them. It stops with
an appropriate message if the entry of a keyword has an unexpected value.
Not all panels are necessarily shown. Some panels may be displayed only if the values of
specific options fulfill a defined condition. If, e.g., the option “Use time window” is enabled,
a subsequent panel allowing to define the time window is activated. It is also possible that
the value in an input field renders another field inactive if user input in that field has no
sense in combination with the first option. One or more options from different panels may
be involved in the definition of the condition.
If you are interested in the technical details of the underlying mechanisms we refer to
Section 18.9.
1 The length of the filenames including the path and extensions is limited to 32 characters in Bernese GPS
Software, see Section 3.2.
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