When You run FryingPan for the first time, the most important thing to do is to get familiar with its GUI. Most of You should see something like this:

    Let's take a closer look at the top of the page

• Tracks - shows a page where user can add files they want to be written.

• Media - contains information about currently mounted medium.

• Contents - lists tracks that could be found on disc.

• Player - (experimental) will display a CD Audio play controls.

• Drive - is a page where user can set up their drives as well as view information about them.

• Settings - here one can customise program settings.

• Write - with most interesting button ;) also displays information about current write progress.

    We will discuss these pages later.

    Next to the right we can see another small set of buttons. Although they don't occupy much space, their meaning is also important, and it is a good idea to get familiar with what they do:

• The circle in top-left corner indicates test-mode writing. Once turned on, the drive will perform all actions in test mode

• The "X" next to the circle aborts any operation (provided an operation can be aborted). Once pressed, the program will drop current operation as soon as it is possible. Important: FryingPan will NOT ask You if You are sure about that!

• Two buttons below represent tray out (=eject disc) and tray in (=load disc) respectively.

    Right below we have a cyclic gadget used to select current drive:

    Current release allows up to four devices working independently from each other, although driver specs allow theoretically infinite number of devices.

    At the bottom of the window You will also find four control lamps:

    Each lamp represents one drive (first, second, third and fourth, respectively). These lamps show the actual state of drive. You will soon figure out how every state is represented.