YAAC Menus

YAAC is controlled through a fairly standard window-based menu system. The menus are displayed on all top-level windows of YAAC, and include the following drop-down menu choices:

• File, for overall control of the application and its collected data.
• View, for changing the way data is presented to the user and invoking alternate views.
• Filter, for selectively choosing which subset of the available APRS packets will be displayed in the various windows.
• Locate, to help identify the geographical position of a specific APRS station or tracked object.
• Query, to request additional status information from a specific APRS station if your station is capable of transmitting such requests by having a transmit-capable APRS port.
• Message, to transmit an arbitrary text message to another APRS station.
• Bookmarks, to remember and move to different positions on the map.
• Window, to switch between different open windows of YAAC.
• Help, to get information about YAAC and how to use it.

Note that some YAAC windows will not display all menu choices, depending on what is contextually meaningful for that particular window. For example, the tabular Station/Object list will not include the menu choice for selecting map layers to render, as there is no map in that window. Similarly, YAAC installations without RF ports will not provide the Query menu choices for querying for all local RF APRS stations, since there would be no RF port through which to transmit the query.

In addition, right-clicking on the map or most table views will provide a context-sensitive menu of choices available for that map point or table row.