Wheatstone Corporation WheatNet-IP Blade3s, Техническое руководство

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WheatNet-IP / Apr 2009
A Final Word About Colors
The Navigator GUI has been designed to simplify
the organization of large complex systems. To that end,
the system will automatically assign a different color
for each BLADE and its associated signals. That is to
say, as soon as a BLADE is brought into the system, it
is given a color and the BLADE’s name will be listed
in the System Pane printed in this color. Additionally,
the BLADE’s source and destination names will ap-
pear in the crosspoint grid in this same color. This color
coding makes it easy to quickly identify visually which
signals go with which BLADE.
Now comes the good part. Because the System
Preferences window allows you to customize these
colors, you can set up your own color schemes for
identifying the signals. Because a WheatNet-IP system
can be brought up so quickly, you might have a little
extra time for organizing the GUI with colors. Here are
some suggestions:
Make each station’s part of your complex a differ-
ent color as in WXXX air, production, and talk
studios are all red, WYYY’s are all blue, WZZZ’s
are all green, and the common signals in your rack
room are all teal. You can further enhance the
presentation by making the different studios in the
station different shades of the same color, with the
Air studio brightest.
You can key your color scheme to physical location, such as all the BLADEs on
the first floor are one color, all the BLADEs on the second floor a second color,
and all the BLADEs in the rack room a third color. Again you can use degrees
of these colors to further distinguish them.
Another possibility is to use colors to designate functions, say, all analog
BLADEs are blue, all digital BLADEs are red, all analog/digital BLADEs are
purple, and all engine BLADEs are green.