The POW Options Menu
This menu allows you to change several things about the way POW looks.
There are nine actions on the POW Options menu:
- Change Background Color will bring up a dialog box with
color sliders. Play with the sliders until you get a color you
like.
- Change Font will change the font used in the main
POW window (the lower left area of POW). Clicking this will
bring up a dialog box where you can type in the name of a color
to use for the backgrounds of POW's windows.
- Default will reset the selection to POW's
default value.
- Apply will change POW's font to whatever is typed
in but not exit the font choice box.
- OK will change POW's font to whatever is typed in
and exit the font choice box.
- Cancel will change POW's font back to what it was
before you launched the font choice box.
See an X users guide or manual for a description of X font
names. The command 'xlsfonts' will give you a (long) list of all
the fonts known to your X server.
- Resize Main Window on Expand: If this box is
checked, POW will get bigger or smaller (as far as possible)
whenever you change the objects in the main POW window,
so as to show you everything currently displayed in the main
POW window without scrolling.
- Set Scopebox Size: The associated submenu allows one
to alter the size of the scopebox -- the window showing a small
overview of the current graph -- or hide it altogether.
- Grid Line Options: You can toggle the grid on or off
and choose dashed and colored grid styles for the currently
selected graph. More options are available from the Edit Graphs dialog box.
- Main Cursor Shape: You can choose from a few standard
X cursors for the form your Mouse cursor will assume in the
main and scope windows.
- Tick Labels: You may choose
decimal or Base 60/degree (WCS) formats for the axis labels
on your
graphs and for what shows up in the Coordinate tracker.
"Base 60" axes only apply to graphs which contain images or
curves with WCS coordinate information.
- Set Default Options: From the resulting dialog box one
can control the default display options for graphs.
See Default Options
for details.
- Save Current Settings will write a file in your
home directory (~/.powrc), saving your current choices for
the appearance of POW and the current graph and making them
the new default options (see preceding item). The current
image and first curve (if either exists) in the selected graph
will be used for the new default curve and image options.
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