Welcome to the Device Tree

The Device Tree is a piece of software designed to be used in two modes, a builder mode and a surveillance mode.

Surveillance mode

The Device Tree starts in surveillance-mode if it is started with a file-name as argument. This file should contain attributes and commands for the explorer to display. When the Device Tree is in surveillance mode, it consists of a menubar, a toolbar, an attribute table, and a command table.

In surveillance mode, the user has the possibility to start and stop the refreshing of attributes, to set the attributes and their properties, and to execute commands. It is also possible to run predefined java-applications on the devices present in the tables.

Administrator mode

If the Device Tree is started with no argument, it is started in administrator mode, which gives the user an aditional graphical element to use, the device tree which lets the user browse all the devices on the system, as well as populate the command and attribute table with commands and attributes from the system.