This tutorial provides a general overview of the application files as well as introduction into the most common user operations which can be done in the program.
How DelftShell files are organized?
The DelftShell application consists of the 2 main parts, Main Application and a set of the Plugins.
Step 1:
In order to start the application go to the DelftShell-1.0.5546 folder (a folder you get after downloading and uncompressing the program) and then start DelftShell.Loader.exe.
It will start an application and will show a screen like the one below.
The mail graphical user interface is organized as a set of tool windows and document windows. A main difference between those two is that the tool windows are always shown on a screen and document windows - only to visualize or edit a specific data type.
A typical examples of the Tool Windows are:
- Project Explorer - a main navigation window showing all data contained in the current project in a tree-like form.
- Message Window - logging windows, messages sent from models or different parts of the system are placed here.
- Property Grid - shows properties for an active selection of the graphical user interface.
- Toolbox - user-specific data shared between different projects (not fully implemented yet).
- Maps - tree-like window showing list of the GIS layers in the currently opened map.
- Time Series Navigator - allows to navigate through times of any time-dependent data.
- Network - allows to view / edit structure of the currently opened (hydro) network.
- Start
- Project
- Types of Data in the Project
- Models
- File Format
- User Interface
- Tool and Document Windows
- Project Explorer
- Property Grid
- Message Window
- Data types
- timeseries
- 2D regular grid
- multidimensional data
- network
- network coverage
- Import and Export
