YFOG Help Guide

The Graphical User Interface

Here is the basic layout of the user interface (The important GUI components are numbered in red)


Menu Bar (Described from left to right)

The Menu Bar contains a set of buttons that allows the user to carry out a number of tasks.

Display Pane

This pane is actually a multi-layered panel and hence can be used to display many different panels that serve different functions. For example when the user selects a manga in the Manga List Pane, the Manga Info Panel appears in the Display Pane providing information about the selected manga. When the user clicks on the button in the Menu Bar the Downloads Panel appears in the Display Pane, showing all of the ongoing downloads.

Status Bar

The status bar comprises of two components. The icon indicates internet connectivity. If the internet connection is lost, then the icon is greyed out (Like this -> ). Next to this icon is the Activity Bar. This is used to notify the user of the state of the application (Could be Caching the manga data, filtering out mangas and so on).