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Digital Universe Guide - Hayden Planetarium

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16 2. GETTING STARTED<br />

2.4 Partiview’s User Interface<br />

Partiview’s graphical user interface (GUI) was written to be simple and compact. However, for a new<br />

user, parts of the interface may seem cryptic. The buttons, sliders, and menus are designed to make<br />

navigation, data manipulation, and data group toggling effortless, but they result in an interface that<br />

looks foreign to most experienced computer users.<br />

Most of Partiview’s rich command set is not represented in the GUI. We recommend consulting the<br />

Partiview User’s <strong>Guide</strong> 3 for a list of commands and keyboard shortcuts.<br />

Using the screen shot below or the Partiview session you just launched, let’s investigate the GUI<br />

elements one by one.<br />

Figure 2.1 – Partiview’s graphical user interface (GUI). Consult the tables and<br />

images below to learn how to use the GUI buttons and sliders.<br />

3 http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/partiviewguide/

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