1.7 Device oriented user interface

The sat-nms software provides a so called device oriented user interface for each type of equipment it supports. If you double click to a device icon at the MNC user interface you automatically get a device window for this device. The software selects the right type of device window for the device driver which is configured for this device.

To use a device oriented user interface for the device drivers you added to the software by yourself, it is necessary to extend the framework which implements the device oriented user interface. The device oriented user interface for a particular device consists of one or more parameter screens which are made specially for this device type and a number of universal screens which appear with almost any device. So, there are principally two steps to do: