| Interaction | Effect |
|---|
| Slider handles | Subtle handles between tool panels allow the divisions between them to be moved |
| Drag Tab downward | Move tab page to other window or new window (drop away from current window center area) |
| File -> New Window | Create additional main window (can also drag-and-drop tabs for tab pages outside mainwindow center) |
| Window -> <windowname> | Show and Dismiss tab pages and tool panels |
| Tab 'X' buttons | Dismiss tab page (recallable through Window menu) |
| Tool Panel 'X' buttons [Linux] | Dismiss tool panel (recallable through Window menu) |
| Tool Panel 'multi-window-icon' buttons [Linux] | Pop tool panel out of, or return it to, main window |
| dbloc -W | '-W' option erases all stored memory of previous window/tool-panel locations |
| Cue | Meaning |
|---|
| Main GUI Components: | (1) Tab Pages (center of main windows); (2) Tool Panels (top/bottom/sides of main windows, or detached) |
| Center Panel of Main Window | Area to hold main program tab pages |
| Left, Right, Top, Bottom Docking Bars of Main Window | Areas to hold detachable tool panels |
| Upper Left Map on Overview Tab | Overview of events in database |
| Lower Left Map on Overview Tab | Prefor and detections/arrivals for selected event |
| Lower Right Map on Overview Tab | Origins and error ellipses for selected event |
| Cue | Meaning |
|---|
| Circle | Earthquake epicentral solution |
| Circle, red outline | Selected event (event map) or preferred origin (origins/ellipses maps) |
| Circle, fill color | Per map-toolbar buttons: colored constant, by event size, or by event depth |
| Circle, beach ball | Shows moment-tensor solution if present in mt table of database |
| Circle, size | Sized constant, or mag in bins '<4', '4-7', '7+'. When not plotting mags, selected earthquake is enlarged |
| Circle, opacity | Per map-toolbar buttons: either constant, or fading at age 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year |
| Ovals, translucent | Error-ellipse from origerr table, if present (in ellipses map) |
| Large Triangle | Detection at station |
| Small Triangle | Arrival at station |
| Triangle, Cyan Fill | Detection for event (detection.lddate < origin.lddate) |
| Triangle, Yellow Fill | Late detection for event (detection.lddate > origin.lddate) |
| Triangle, Magenta Fill | Defining arrival for the event |
| Triangle, Orange Fill | Non-defining arrival for the event |
| Event-Station lines | Great-circle paths in arrival color, or detection color if no arrival present |
| Cue | Meaning |
|---|
| Blue arrival flag | In show associations mode: arrival is defining for selected event |
| Green arrival flag | In show associations mode: arrival is associated but non-defining for selected event |
| Greyed-out arrival flag | In show associations mode: arrival is associated with another event, not the selected event |
| Red vertical line, all-caps 'ON' | Start of detection window |
| Red vertical line, lowercase 'on' | Continuation of detection window |
| Red vertical line, all-caps 'OFF' | End of detection window |