SMS:Quick Tour - Help Strip

The help strip at the bottom of the SMS windows is used to provide feedback.

On the bottom left of the graphics window, the coordinates of the cursor and the function value of that point are displayed if appropriate. If a process in SMS will take a significant amount of time, a progress bar is also displayed here.

On the bottom right of the graphics window, the attributes of the selected entities are displayed including number of entities, distance between two entities, etc.

Along the bottom of the program window, SMS displays messages about what it is processing.

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