The Menu

The Instrument Menu

 

The "Instrument" menu items are also represented by large buttons at the right side of the NemaTalker window. It is up to the user to use either the menu or the buttons to open an instrument.

Common to all instruments

Common to all instruments is the box above. Here you can tell NemaTalker to calculate a checksum for each sentence, and the interval in seconds that the sentences have to be send to the selected communications port. So setting the value to 3 means that every 3 seconds the selected sentences will be transmitted.

Setting the Transmit Interval to 0 (zero) will fire a "single shot", each time you click the start or continue button on the instrument.

GPS

This menu item will open the GPS Instrument.

Weather

This menu item will open the Weather Instrument.

Sounder

This menu item will open the Sounder Instrument.

Velocity

This menu item will open the Velocity Instrument.

Heading

This menu item will open the Heading Instrument.

Radar

This menu item will open the Radar Instrument.

Custom

This menu item will open the Custom sentence formatter.

Note that the user interface of NemaTalker is based on the "Multiple Document Interface" technology, which means that the instrument windows are treated as child documents within the main window, and can be arranged at will within the borders of the main window.