Standard dialogs
Print dialog
The MyARM-Manager also uses some standrd dialogs as described in the next chapters. These are used for printing and for chosing the background color/grid color of the graph view. Since the print dialog is a little bit different betwen windows and Unix both are described here.
On Unix
The print dialog on Unix is divided into different sections. These can be identified via the small title in the top left corner of each section. The following sections exist.
- Printer: The Printer section allows the user to select the device to print on. Each printer that was configured on operating system level can be selected here. Printing to a file is possible by activating the checkbox "Print to file". In that case a standard file dialog is opened that enables the user to specify file name and location.
- Print range: The "Print range" section allows to distinguish whether to print all pages, just a few pages in between a certain range or just the selected part of the content.
- Copies: The "Copies" section lets the user define the number of copies to print. The copies can be sorted (i.e. if this checkbox is activated the whole content to print is printed once, before the second copy is printed. Otherwise the content is multiplied pagewise). If the "Last page first" checkbox is activated the content is printed in the inverse order.
- Paperformat: The "Paperformat" section allows to select the orientation ("Portrait" or "Landscape") and the size of the sheet of paper (e.g. "US Letter", or "A4" and so on). The latter depends on what the printer supports.
- Other: Last but not least some more properties can be selected in the "Other" section. If you havconfigured a color printer then you might select here to print the content colored. If the printer allows to print on both sides of a sheet of paper then this can be selected here as well.
Figure: The print dialog on Unix
On Windows
On Windows the standard operating system print dialog is used. This dialog is very similar to the one described above, while the properties dialog is very printer specific. Please consult your printer manual for details regarding these properties.
Color dialog
The second standard dialog that is used by the MyARM-Manager is the color dialog. The color dialog allows to select a specific color which is then used for example as background of the current graph. How the selected color is used depends on the situation when the dialog was called. The dialog is divided into different sections. These are
- Basic colors: The upper left part of the dialog provides 48 standard colors ranging from black in the upper left to white in the lower right corner. These can be directly selected by clicking on the respective color.
- Custom colors: Custom colors are colors that were previously selected by the user and where then saved actively by pressing the "Add to Custom Colors" button. These colors reside even when the dialog was closed in between.
- Color selection via mouse or keyboard: If the user is not satisfied with the standard 48 colors he can select a color directly in the color window in the upper right part of the dialog. Here the color as well as the color birghtness can be chosen. If the user has information about the RGB values of the color he wants (as well as information about hue, saturation and value) he can also type in the color values via keyboard in the lower right part of the dialog.
Clickong on the "OK" button selects the formerly chosen color.
Figure: The color dialog
