The GUI (``Graphics-User-Interface'') Mode

When a windowing system is available, SIC provides facilities (called GUI mode) to create documented input windows by which the user can modify variables and execute pre-defined commands. Currently, such facilities are available for Motif-based systems (soon for MAC-OS, and later for Windows-95).

SIC can create 3 types of windows:

• Detached menus
    which are menu bars created by the GUI $\backslash$PANEL /DETACH command. These menus have no associated parameters, but run in parallel with the main program. Pre-defined commands are activated by pressing the various buttons.

• Main input window
    which is created by the GUI $\backslash$PANEL