The Main Window and its Menus and Buttons



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The Main Window and its Menus and Buttons

 

If the environment variables have been set, when PADE is launched the PADE Main window will appear. This window contains a row of six buttons at the top along with a canvas exhibiting the NIST and PADE logos together with the words Parallel Applications Development Environment at the bottom. This window is pictured in Fig. 5.1. The titlebar on the top border of the window has the words ``PADE - Release x.xx''. This is sometimes important if more than one version of the program is present (e.g., because of an upgrade).

The six buttons across the top of the window consist of the Setup button, the Run menu button, the PVM menu button, the Monitor menu button, the Help menu button, and the Exit button. All buttons except Setup and Exit reveal pull-down menus when clicked with the left mouse button.

  
Figure 5.1: The PADE main window

Each of the six buttons in the PADE main window will be discussed in turn below. The Setup button leads to another entire set of windows which allow the user to enter all file and command information about the current parallel application. These windows will be described in later sections of this chapter.






Fri Mar 31 20:30:34 EST 1995