U-Bahn Navigator - User manual

Main screen

The U-Bahn Navigator main screen consists of the following elements
  • Menu for accessing application functions
  • Selection elements for start and destination
  • Tool buttons for start finding a route and for switching stations
  • The display area for routes

Menu

File

The file menu has the items "Open..." to open a U-Bahn map and "Close..." to close the current map. "Exit" leaves the application.
After selecting "Open..." a list of installed U-Bahn maps will be displayed.

View

The View menu contains functions to view information about the current map - version, creator, last change - lines and stations.

Help

The help menu contains the "About" item only.

Functions

Find Route

The button "Find Route" starts the route finder to find the shortest route and the route with the least number of connections. Start and destination must be selected from a list of stations.

The routes found will be displayed in the route display area.

Switch Stations

The button "Switch Stations" switches the start and destination station to find the route of the reverse direction.

View Stations

The menu item "View->Stations" opens a dialog with a list of stations of the current U-Bahn map.

For every station a list of serving lines can be displayed also.

View Lines

The menu item "View->Lines" opens a dialog with information about the lines of the current U-Bahn map. After selecting a line from the list the stations of the line's route with the time between each station and possible changes will be displayed.