I.8. Status Panel

The Status Panel (identified as (7) in fig. I.1) is a message board (placed in the bottom left corner of the main window), in which the PN Toolbox displays the current simulation time and the total number of events. In addition, the Status Panel displays the file name corresponding to the current model.

I.9. Message Box

The Message Box (identified as (8) in fig. I.1) is a MATLAB text object used by the PN Toolbox to display messages to the user. In the Draw Mode, five types of messages may be displayed, corresponding to the actions enabled by the five buttons in the Drawing Panel, respectively. In the Explore Mode, messages are displayed only during the simulation of a model (Step or Run Slow commands) if option Displayed is checked for Transition-Firing Message in the Preferences dialogue box (from the Simulation menu). When a transition fires, the Message Box displays a text associated with this transition; the text must be previously defined in the Edit Transition dialogue box.