Using CFEO

Getting started

Clicking 'View Chopin's First Editions' on the menu bar at the top of the screen takes you to the start screen of the CFEO application. You will see a screen similar to the following one (NB the screenshots here were taken in Firefox (version 2) running in Windows Vista; your own display may look slightly different). The notes below refer to the numbers superimposed on the screen.

  1. Navigation: these links remain consistent throughout the website and allow you to see supporting information about the project and the website (they also give you access at any time to the full User Guide).
  2. The search tab allows you to open or close (i.e. toggle) the 'Search' pane at any time. By default the search pane is closed until you need it.
  3. The browse tab allows you to toggle the 'Browse' pane open or closed at any time. By default the browse pane is open.
  4. The browse pane contains a listing of all of the works of Chopin within the CFEO database. The list is displayed in the form of an expandable tree: clicking a 'plus' icon (+) will expand an entry in the list, allowing you to see the contents.
  5. The display pane is empty to begin with. This space is used to display either high-quality images of the sources, publication history texts, or source information entries.

Using the browse and search tabs

The CFEO interface is designed to be flexible: you can quickly rearrange the display by hiding parts of the interface you don't need to see in order to increase the amount of space available for viewing images or source descriptions. The interface can be customised using the browse and search tabs. The following screenshots show you some of the different ways in which you can rearrange the display depending on the sort of information you are looking at:

  1. In the first screenshot, the search pane is shut and the browse pane is open. The display pane is being used to view the source information for one of the pieces. Working in this way gives quick access to the list of compositions in the browse pane, allowing you to move quickly between different ones.
  2. In the second screen the search pane has been opened (using the search tab) allowing search criteria to be entered into the search form. The browse pane has been closed to make more room for the display of source information in the display pane.
  3. The third screenshot shows all three panes open.
  4. The fourth screenshot shows a typical arrangement of the browse and display panes for browsing images.
  5. The final screenshot shows both the search and the browse panes closed to allow full-screen display of an image.