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L-8 / Sep 2013
S U R F A C E C O N F I G U R A T I O N
Tabbed Navigation
The L-8 GUI features a tabbed navigation architecture to easily access features with
a minimum number of mouse clicks.
The L-8 GUI screen is vertically divided into two parts with a Function Pane on
the left side and a System Info Pane on the right side. The Main Menu Tab buttons are
located on the left side of the function display area. You may access any of the Main
Menu Tabs by simply clicking on them.
At the bottom of the screen is a Devices Pane that displays a list of L-8 devices that
the L-8 GUI has been configured to communicate with. Click
Add...
to add a device to
the list,
Edit...
to change the name of an L-8 or give the GUI a different IP address to
talk to it on, or
Remove
to delete the device currently highlighted in the list. To the right
of these buttons is the
Online
check box, which is used to toggle the GUI connection to
the highlighted device between online (checked) and offline (not checked).
The Function Pane contents change according to the tab selected. Both of the System
Info and Devices Panes are relocatable within the GUI window by clicking on the Pane’s
handle (the rows of the double dots with the Pane name in between) and dragging the
Pane to the new location. You can even drag one or both of these Panes outside of the
GUI window, a handy feature if you have two monitors. To bring a Pane back into the
GUI, double-click its title bar.
FUNCTION PANE
GUI MENU
DEVICES
PANE
SYSTEM INFO PANE
