Upgrading Cloverleaf from 5.8 to 6.02 – GUI question

[Scherie Drewa]

We are upgrading Cloverleaf from 5.8 to 6.02.  At one time, I thought I was told during a demo, that you can change the GUI on 6.0 to look like 5.8 GUI.

Is this true?  If it is, how do I make that change.

Thanks,   Scherie

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[Troy Morton]

There are options in the GUI under /options/client options that will let you change the GUI appearance.

[James Cobane]

Troy,

Under the “Client Options”, Netmonitor tab if select “Simple line” instead of Z-style, it should revert to straight lines.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Robert Kersemakers]

Yep, I reverted back to the old style appearance. Z-style lines were horrible, as it looked like connections came from the wrong threads, so you would have to rearrange all threads.

Also have a look at the thread Bitmap. We always had a special 20×20 hci-bitmap. So all looked the same as we are migrating to CL60. But if you remove the special bitmap, the thread will show by default what kind of thread it is: fileset, tcp/ip, pdl etc. So we are going with that.

And you can rearrange the ‘properties’ part of the Network Configurator window by dragging it to the right, top or left of the screen. I keep it on the bottom.

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Russ Ross]

Even though our sites are kept smaller it took a while to find an arrangement that suited me in the Cloverleaf 6.0 GUI/IDE default look.

Attached is a screen shot that might be helpful for those still in search of an arrangement syle if using the default curved lines.

What I like about this arrangement is:

– the arrows don’t cut through the thread names making them easier to read

– the route arrows don’t overlap to much so easy to slect the right one

– the thread names can be long in length and still not get in the way

– still relatively concise since each thread partially overlaps its neighboring thread’s territory

Curved arrows instead of straight arrows allowed us to go from 8 to 10 jump send interfaces in our distribution sites and still have a useable uncrowded look.

As simply as this screen shot looks, I did spend considerable time trying various arrangements so maybe this will get someone there quicker than it took me.

I would be curious to see other curved arrow arrangments that others may have come up with that they like, especially for crowed processes or sites.

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Scherie Drewa]

Thank you all for your comments!  This is very helpful!

Scherie

[Robert Kersemakers]

BTW Russ: that line to js_08 is crooked. Unacceptable! 😈

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

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