1. AquaRed Fall 2005 Lincoln Uyeda Yevgeniy Brikman

2. System Documentation

3. The new GUI

4. GUI changes No more Open GL! Regular windows GUI components Cleaned up menus Reworked buttons

5. Advantages of the new GUI Simpler to code than Open GL Fixed many bugs/issues: – better navigation – removed buttons/menus that weren’t functioning or necessary – added new buttons that are useful (Edit Selection, Delete Selection, View Data) – resizable side menu Looks cleaner Color scheme is customizable

6. Remaining GUI issues Some bugs still remain: – connect nodes still not intuitive – language/units setting don’t work – large networks look a bit cluttered GUI features to add: – right click menu for nodes (possibly open edit selection window) – add different cursors (such as hand for panning) – view options (such as “hide waypoints”)

7. Where to go from here Database should be phased out – It is modular: only the DB package needs to be changed DBsetup.cs: load the same information into C# objects rather than a DB Storage.cs: keep the same methods, but query the C# objects instead of a DB Query.cs: can be removed Export.cs: doesn’t change

8. More changes for the future Make the search feature work Make the “design distribution system” feature work Give users the option of using more wizards: – For example, it might help to have a transmission line design wizard, which prompts the user to “Identify the tank”, then the “reservoir”, etc. – Remove the reliance on users reading the user manual

9. Now for a Demonstration