CIFER®-MATLAB Interfaces: Development and ... - Cal Poly

Figures A6 through A10, offers users a visual description of each screen in the COMPOSITE
program and allows users to access any of those screens with a mouse click. The bottom menu,
displayed on the bottom of Figure 3.3, is a re-creation of the original CIFER ® menu, shown on
top in Figure 3.3, and offers quick access to simple navigation and save or exit options.
Figure 3.3: Comparison of Navigation Menus
Aside from the new navigation, the largest change to the first screen, Figure A1 and Figure A6, is
the addition of a browse feature. This button opens the first window shown in Figure A11 and
allows the users to browse the database for CIFER ® cases. When a case is selected from the list,
its description is provided to aid in selecting the desired case. The case name can then be loaded
into the text field on screen one.
Screen 2, Figure A2 and Figure A7, originally completely consisted of text field entries. Many of
these fields corresponded to data that could only be one of two choices – yes or no, for example.
The MATLAB GUI uses toggle buttons to simplify this process and reduce the amount of error
checking necessary. Additional browsing capacity has been added to help data entry; inputs and
outputs can be selected from a list of all inputs or outputs in that case. For example, a user might
load a case into COMPOSITE and not remember which inputs and outputs were used in previous
FRESPID cases. The “input” and “output” buttons (Figure A7) call up a new screen, the second
window in Figure A11, that displays all the inputs or outputs that exist in a particular case by
querying previous MISOSA or FRESPID cases. The desired inputs or outputs can be selected and
then loaded back into screen 2.
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