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The Vessel Configuration Manager dialog is of type modal, which means that other functionality in Geocap is inactive until the dialog is closed by the OK or Cancel buttons.
The Project part
The pulldown menu after the text Project contains a list of open projects in Geocap. Normally only one project is open, but in Geocap it is possible to have several projects open at the same time. Each project can have one or more vessel configurations. The selection of project decides which vessel configurations which will be shown in the vessel configurations part.
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