| 1.) | Menu Bar
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| 2.) | Tool Bar
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| 3.) | Tree View
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| 4.) | Main Area (where all child forms would be displayed)
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| 5.) | Tree Nodes
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| 6.) | Status Bar
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Figure 1: MonitorWare Console: Main Form
Introduction to the components of Main Form
Menu Bar: It contains sub menus, which will take the user to different modules present in this application.
Tool Bar: Tool bar has a number of different buttons on it and it also does more or less the same thing as done by sub menu items in the menu bar. Clicking on these buttons would take the user to another module of this application.
Tree View: The left region of the application is the Tree View, which displays different Tree Nodes in it.
Tree Nodes: When the application starts, it displays 4 main tree nodes. Clicking on any of them would take the user to the respective module.
Main Area: The gray region in the center is currently not showing any thing. When any of the nodes from the tree view is clicked, or a button from the tool bar is clicked, or user selects some sub menu item from the menu bar, it displays the main form, corresponding to the selected module.
Status Bar: It informs the users about important messages through out the application usage.
Job Manager: The round Dot to the left here indicates the status of the JobManager. Green means it's running and red means it's stopped. The buttons following each have a function. The first button opens the JobManager Menu in which you can configure JM. The second button switches JM into running state as the third button stops it. The fourth button initiates a stop/start action which lets you restart the JM with only one click.