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WingX User Interface
WingX has been designed with a very intuitive user-interface. Text boxes can be driven by
tap-n-hold that displays a popup menu of potential values. The tremendous functionality
has been divided into logical pages that are easily selected by tapping on the appropriate tab.
U
ser Interface (UI) design is significantly more critical when designing a Pocket PC application than a
desktop application. With its much smaller screen size and lack of keyboard, the UI design is critical
to ensure a great user-experience. For pilots, UI design is even more critical since pilots can often be
cramped, be bouncing around in turbulence, and would prefer to eliminate the use of a stylus.
This chapter describes the basic usability issues of WingX and how the WingX UI design is used to maximize
user productivity and efficiency. This chapter does not discuss the UI issues for specific pages, but rather it acts
as a UI primer – we discuss each page in detail in the upcoming chapters.
Menu System
WingX’s menu system allows the user to select a page, configure views, set usability options, configure the GPS,
update databases, and obtain online help.
Pages Submenu
The major features of WingX are logically divided into pages. The Pages
submenu is placed in the lower-left corner of the screen to make it easier for a
pilot to invoke with a finger press. Tapping on “Pages” will display the Pages
menu. This menu is central to the navigation between pages in WingX and
tapping on a button will display that specific page. The pages in WingX are:
• Aircraft Page – Used to define aircraft and perform W&B
calculations
• A/FD Page – Used to obtain A/FD information about airports,
navaids, fixes, intersections, and user-defined waypoints.
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