Info Bar
The Info Bar is a region to the left of the map that is turned on when needed, either by typing any of the two-letter Program Shortcuts 'IA' to 'IS' on the keyboard, or by clicking the 'Info Bar' button in the 'Controls Panel'. The Info Bar is designed to show textual and graphical information that is too extensive to be fitted on to the 'Data Bar' or the 'News Ticker', and is also the place to access Pop-Outs that provide still further information, maps, and images.
You can adjust the width of the Info Bar by typing 'W1' to 'W5'. The 'W5' width is three-times the width of the 'W1' setting. Typing 'W0' or clicking the 'Info Bar' button in the 'Controls Panel' will hide the Info Bar, and expand the Map to fill its space.
As the width of the Info Bar changes, so do the fonts used in the Info Bar, so the amount of information shown remains the same. The Info Bar is updated by the program as necessary. Some pages have content that does not change very often, whereas other pages are updated every second. Pop-Outs also change size and content dependent on the width of the Info Bar.
The Info Bar content is split into pages. These are selected by typing 'IA' to 'IS'. If the Info Bar is not currently showing, typing one of 'IA' to 'IS' will show it, and load that page.
Some of the Info Bar content is too large to be shown on one page. If that is the case, the content will be split into sub-pages, and even sub-sub-pages, and these sub- and sub-sub-pages will each be shown for a certain amount of time (10, 12, 15, or 20 seconds, depending which page is on view) before the Info Bar page advances to the next sub-page. This scrolling of sub- and sub-sub--pages can be temporarily paused by clicking the Info Bar page-title. When the scrolling is paused, the title will be outlined with a rectangle. Clicking the title a second time will remove the rectangle and resume the scrolling.
The Info Bar has the following pages: Shortcut Keys, Map Legend, Propagation Info, Propagation Images, Solar Info, Lunar Info, Satellite Data, DX Cluster, DX News Feed, Contest Calendar, NCDXF Beacons, Logger Feed, Ham Log, PSK Reporter, City Climate, Volcano Info, Earthquake Info, Marker Info, and Download Stats.