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.
Tip:
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.
When application is started - it automatically creates a default empty project so that user can immediately start filling it in with a various data, models, etc. Project can be seen as a currently opened user work document. Currently project can be stored in SQLite database file format. Eventually DelftShell may store a model input / output data in a set of NetCDF files located next to the project file. So in total there are two non-proprietary file formats used to store project data.
Tip:
Use F2 in Project Explorer in order to edit name of the project, folder, model or any other item contained.
Generally speaking in default configuration DelftShell can store the following data types in the project:
- Folder
- Model / Composite Model - working activities which user can start in order to perform a computations
- Data - any data type registered in the system, default contain e.g. Time Series, Regular Grid Coverage or more specific data types such as Network.
- <specific application documents such as Map or Chart> - these are non-data objects but more views configured in order to view those objects.
How do I add a new Time Series or any other data type to the project.
Use a menu command shown on the screen below.
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- 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
