Using Panels

Each panel displays different information to the user. The main history page supports displaying two to many different panels. Panels can be popped out into their own windows to allow more to be shown, see below

These panels can be either in a tab, in a splitter or grid within a tab, embedded in the travel history page, or popped out:

Selector Panel (+):

• Use this panel to open one of the other panels, either in a Tab or in a pop out window.

History:

• Log : show EDD information log

• History Grid : The main panel showing all events received by EDD from Elite

• Journal Grid : An alternate view to the same data as the history grid

• Visited Stars Grid : Listing stars in visited order

Current Stats:

• Materials count : Your current (or past) material status

• Commodities count : Your current (or past) commodity status

• Material Trader : Allows you to plan material trades

• Ledger : Your credit ledger

• Missions : Current missions

• Ships and Load Out : Current ships and their loadouts

• Statistics panel : Statistics over a defined period

• Factions panel : Lists factions you've interacted with

• Suits and Weapons panel : Lists suits and weapons you have (current or past)

• Micro Resources panel : Your current (or past) micro resources status

Data From where you've been:

• Market Data : A stations commodity market data

• Shipyard Panel : A stations shipyard data

• Outfitting Panel : A stations outfitting data.

Data about stations:

• Spansh Station Panel : From Spansh, a list of stations in the system

Engineering/Synthesis:

• Synthesis : Plan synthesis and find out what your missing

• Engineering : Plan Engineering by recipe

• Engineers : Plan Engineering by Engineer, and find out your current status with the Engineer

• Shopping List Panel : Plan synthesis and Engineering in one panel and produce a shopping list.

Scans and Stars:

• Scan Panel : Display the current (or past) system in graphical form.

• Scan Grid : Display the current (or past) system in text form.

• Nearest stars : List the nearest stars to you known to EDSM.

• Estimated Exploration Values : Display your rewards from exploration in this system

• 3D Map : 3D Map of the galaxy.

• Local 3D Map : 3D Local area map

• Organic Scans : Organic scans in total, and can be used in a transparent window to track scans on ground

• Trilateration : Allows trilateration submissions to EDSM

• EDSM Panel : View EDSM in program, tracks your system automatically

• Inara Panel : View Inara in program, tracks your system automatically

• Spansh Panel : View Spansh in program, tracks your system automatically

Logs and Bookmarks:

• Bookmarks panel : Allows control of your EDD bookmarks

• Captains Log panel : Allows you to make notes against time and date.

Searchers and Discoveries

• Search Panel : Search for materials, stars and scans - see the following sub panels

  • Search Stars Sub Panel of Search : Search for stars.

  • Search Materials/Commodities Sub Panel of Search : Search for materials or commodities.

  • Search Scans Sub Panel of Search : Search for scans and set up new searches for the surveyor and discoveries panels

• Discoveries Panel : Observe your discoveries, using the searches set up in the search scan sub panel

Combat:

• Combat Panel : Combat stats updated as you fight.

Mining:

• Mining Panel : Mining data, showing materials found, and stats graph allowing for efficient mining.

Route Planning:

• Route Plotting : Route plot through EDSM stars

• Expedition Planning : Plan an expedition

Overlay Panels:

• System Information Panel : Current system information

• S panel : An over-layable history panel showing events and other data.

• Note panel : Allow editing of journal notes

• Compass panel : Allows you to go to a specific location on a planet, defined by a bookmark, showing a compass for navigation.

• Mission Overlay panel : Shows current mission status

• Surveyor panel : Used for exploring as an overlay over Elite. Allows you to show what planets your scanning are interesting to you. Many options to configure the display. Incorporates route tracking and searches defined by the search scan sub panel.

Settings:

• Settings : Control EDD settings.

Screenshots:

• Screenshot panel : Shows latest screenshots

Multipanels:

• Grid : Allows multiple overlapped panels

• Splitter : Allows panels in splitters

Pop Out Panels

#pop-out-panels

All panels can be popped out into their own windows. When so, icons along the top of the panel configure how it is displayed. An example from the summary panel:

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The icons along the top configure it.

• T controls the transparency:

T No box = No transparency

T with a box around = Transparent normally, becomes opaque when the cursor enters area of panel.

Tc = Transparent, but the form does not become opaque and activated when you move the cursor into the panel. Instead you must press the activate key defined in the Settings panel to activate it. All controls within the panel can be clicked when transparent.

Tf = Transparent, but the form does not become opaque and activated when you move the cursor into the panel. Instead you must press the activate key defined in the Settings panel to activate it (shift is the default). All controls within the panel are inert unless the form is opaque.

Use Tf for panels which are over layed on the Elite screen when it is running in borderless or windowed mode (use the Elite graphics options to configure this).

• C means caption("Summary panel") on/off,

• The box with dots mean show in taskbar on/off.

• The empty rectangle is top most on/off. Use this, with Elite running in borderless mode, and drag the window over the top of Elite to have an overlay panel.

• Minimise

• Close.

A panel over-layed on elite should have these settings: Tf, Fill rectangle (Top most). With Elite in borderless mode.