DAWN is a Java based open source project, built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Using Eclipse (which is actually an Integrated Development Environment in it's own right) makes DAWN incredibly flexible, whilst the the Rich Client Platform (RCP) gives DAWN a huge range of software components which can be used across a range of platforms. However, Eclipse comes with a whole load of terminology which might be a bit confusing to new users. Hopefully this glossary will provide some help - suggestions, additions and corrections welcome scisoftjira@diamond.ac.uk

Editors

Fish

Perspectives

A perspective is a collection of editors and views which provide tools to access data (for example, 1D plots, images...) and then to process and/or analyse that data. A set of perspectives comes predefined in DAWN, but you can change these by adding or removing views as you need them. Alternatively, you can create your own perspectives to help you attack your particular problem most effectively.

Project

Fish

Views

Fish

View Menu

Fish