Owner's manual

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1

connection, and yellow denotes an inactive connection. See

Figure 3-11.

• [End] key behavior under Isis Explorer — If you have more than

one file selected in your Isis Explorer list, and you press [End] to go

to the end of the currently scrolling file, Isis Explorer does not

automatically go on to play back the next file in your list. Instead, the

file that was scrolling stops scrolling at the end of file. The purpose

of this [End] key behavior under Isis Explorer is to make it possible

for you to see the last part of your current file, at your leisure,

without having Isis Explorer jump to the next file right away. To

make Isis Explorer play the next file in your list when you are at the

end of the currently scrolling file, press [End] again (that is, press

[End] [End]).

3.6.4 Playing Back a Selected File or Files

Once the files have been sorted, the user can select one or more files to

play in Isis. If one file is selected and the Isis Explorer Play button is clicked,

or if you press ENTER, the file plays once. If more than one file is selected

and the Play button is clicked or the ENTER key is pressed, the set of files

plays in the top-to-bottom order shown in the listbox and then stops after the

last file finishes playing. During this loading process, Isis Explorer displays a

progress control and stop button message box (Figure 3-14):

Figure 3-14. Progress control and stop button message box

After Isis Explorer loads the specified files, Isis displays the filename for the

file that is currently being played. Double-clicking a selected file also plays it

back in Isis.

The user can select a file and drag it into the Isis workspace. While the file is

displaying the data, the user can pause the display from within Isis.

Isis yields “play” preference to the Isis Explorer tool. If Isis is launched and a

data file is being displayed when the Isis Explorer tool is running, then if the

Chapter 3: Using the File Menu