Method for configuring a coating process

A method of entering and displaying of data in a data processing system comprising means for carrying out a computer implemented method for configuring a coating process to deposit a targeted mono- or multi-layered coating on a transparent substrate, wherein said computer implemented method provides as output a series of ordered tasks which are executed on the coating process, and comprises the following steps:

• (i) providing a dataset comprising at least data related to parameters of the coating process;
• (ii) providing a set of algorithms which takes, as input, data from the dataset of step (a) and provides, as output, series of at one or several tasks associated to each of said algorithms;
• (iii) selecting at least two algorithms from the set of algorithms depending on current states of the coating process as provided as input data, and
• (iv) selecting an order in which the algorithms selected at step (iii) has to be carried out so that the tasks provided by said algorithms are organized as a series of ordered tasks which are executed contextually onto the coating process at corresponding stages in said coating process,
• wherein said method of entering and displaying of data comprising the following steps:
• (a) displaying a linear sequence of icons, each icons representing an algorithm from a set a set of algorithms:
• (b) displaying input fields associated with each icon and being configured to accept a integer number corresponding to the order in which the algorithms associated with the corresponding icon may be executed;
• (c) entering a number in the input fields;
• (c) displaying an input field being configured to make the data processing system execute the computer implemented method according to the order of the number entered in the inputs fields, and
• (d) displaying the computed series of ordered as a linear sequence of contextualized tasks according to the stages of the coating process.