AEQ DIGITAL COMMENTARY UNIT Customer's Manual page 78

• File option: Allows the user to select between Direct Connection (PC directly
connected to a CU) or Network Connection (PC connected through a CCU)
and exit from the application.
• Setup option: Calls the connection configuration screen to set up the
communications.
• View option: Calls the network management screen (or the Commentary Unit
Management screen when Direct Connection is selected).
• Help option: About screen.
There is a total number of 7 buttons although some of them may be hidden
depending on the window selected on the client area. They are only shortcuts
to the main options of the application. The function of each button, from left to
right, is the following :
• View network
• Open unit
• Zoom out
• Zoom in
• Expand
• Collapse
• Network setup
At right side of the shortcut panel there is a section labeled CALLS PENDING
(only when Network Connection is selected). This section contains a list of the
calls that have been received from any CU and have not been answered yet.
The computer user may view this list and attend to this calls by selecting the
corresponding CU and initiating a communication with it. As the calls are
answered, the calls are deleted from the list.
To select between a network connection or a direct connection to a CU, the
option File of the menu bar must be used. If the sub-option Direct Connection is
selected, the subsequent behavior of the program is described in section 4.5.
On the other hand, if Network Connection sub-option is selected, the user will
be asked to select a pre-stored configuration. This configurations are created
through the " DCS Engineering Planning" software which is explained in section
4.6. The user must select one of this configurations that will be used as a
template for the actual network.
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