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Brief overview of AIPS++ windows and GUIs

After starting AIPS++, the window from which you executed the aips++ command is now running the Glish Command Line window. Glish is alive and well when a `-' (or sometimes a `+') prompt appears on the screen. You use the Glish Command Line window to type commands. At this point rearrange the three windows (terminal, Logger GUI, and Tool Manager GUI) any way that suits your convenience.

Figure 1: The Logger window

The Logger window

shown in Figure 1, is something you may watch as action takes place in response to your commands. Most actions are reported to the logger, with only a few exceptions, such as (e.g., Help) that are reported to the Glish CLI window. The Logger window has three frames. From left to right, they are the time, the priority, and the message. In addition, a fourth frame may be activated which displays the module from which the message arose. These frames are toggled on and off from the Options menu in the window. The File menu allows you to:

query

Select a subset of the messages using a query. You will be prompted to fill in the details of the query.

purge

clear the log messages,

print

make a hardcopy of the log messages (you are prompted for the number of messages to print),

script

write commands in the log to a script

Notice that some messages have already been logged in the Logger window after you started AIPS++. These messages tell you that several default tools have already been loaded (e.g., viewer tool `dv', catalog tool `dc').

The Tool Manager GUI

(Figure 2) is central to AIPS++. It is used to control AIPS++ as well as to obtain help on various tools and functions in AIPS++. It is not desirable to resize this (or other AIPS++) windows using the window manager on your workstation. If you do so, you may get strange results in subsequent operations.