Explanation of the Menu buttons in the Flaunch window

Explanation of the Menu buttons in the Flaunch window

We will take a moment to go over the three menubottons in detail.


The File menu:

If the user selects the File menu the following will be displayed:


We see here that there are three options that can be selected, in which the first two carry out specific operations.

The Quit menu:

The second option within the File menubutton is to "Quit", which from the arrow is a menu of its own:


Here we are presented with a number of options as well as a list of keyboard short-cuts which are bound within the Flaunch window. We see that depressing the Control key and the "x" key simultaneously (or depressing the Control key with the "c" key) will "Exit all", i.e., exiting the entire process, killing all running processes and deleting all log-files that were created. This is the global "kill" command. However the user is also presented with several alternatives to this, the user can close all windows and delete all log-files but leave any processes submitted running in the background (Ctrl+p), or all windows can be closed and all processes terminated but the log files will be left for observation (Ctrl+l), or the user can simply close all windows and leave the log files as well as any processes which were submitted which haven't finished running in the background (Ctrl+w), or the user can simply iconify the window (Ctrl+i).
The Options menu:

If you are going to be setting many options, there is a "tear-off" line at the very top of the menu. If you select this the menu will appear as a separate window which does not go away after an option is selected. Thus the user can select all options and than save the settings to the configuration file. Note that because this is a separate X-window feature you will have to "close" this window via a separate X-window command, i.e., Tcl/Tk cannot close this window you will have to do that with your windowing system.

If the user selects the Options menu from within the "flaunch" window the following list of options will be presented. This shows the user's initial setup before any modifications are made. The user should examine the following explainations and tailor flaunch to behave in a manner most suited to their particular needs. The initial (default) options display looks like:


These options all relate to the parameter editing window which is displayed "if" the task selected has a parameter file associated with it.