QuickView's Graphical UI

UI components

QuickView's UI contains three main components.

• Viewport: The viewport displays global or regional map plots for the user-selected physical quantities (variables in the NetCDF files). The sequence of the displayed variables and the size of the map plots can be adjusted using the viewport layout control panel. For each variable shown on a map, the colormap, value ranges etc. can be adjusted individually using the pop-up menu activated by a click on the colorbar.

• Control panels: Various contral panels allow the user to change properties of all map plots shown in the viewport. The control panels can be collapsed (hidden) or expanded (shown) by clicking on their corresponding icons in the toolbar or by using keybord shortcuts.

• Main toolbar: The vertical toolbar located on the left of the UI contains various buttons that either activate pop-up menus on a single click or serve as toggles for showing or hiding control panels. The toolbar is shown in a collapsed mode by default, but will change into an expanded mode if the user clicks on the colorful QuickView icon at the top of the toolbar or press the H key on the keyboard.