Preferences Dialog

The Preferences dialog is opened from the Dialog menu. The Preferences dialog contains a number of general-purpose and supplemental features, including the legend properties, pan options, slide show pause interval, x-cursors default properties, and the auto sieve on read options.

Legend – Select the default legend properties. Orientation can be either horizontal or vertical. Location can be one of the cardinal or ordinal compass directions. Interpreter determines where certain characters in the legend strings are interpreted as TEX instructions or displayed literally, and can be either none, TEX, or LATEX.

Pan – Select the default axes panning behavior, which can be horizontal, vertical, or unconstrained panning.

Slide Show Pause Interval – Enter the pause interval in seconds for the plotting slide show. The automatically incremented slide show plotting pauses for this time interval between plots.

Cursors – Select the default properties for x-cursors added to the plot axes. These properties include the color, marker symbol and fill, line type and display of the x/y position text. If 'custom' is selected for the color, a color selection dialog is presented.

Auto Sieve on Read – Enable the options for the automatic sieving of the time response functions when read into spFRF. "Retain current sieve" will apply the current sieve, except for the first read into spFRF, since there is no sieve and all channels are retained in the sieve. "References by excitation force data type" will make any channel that has the ordinate numerator data type of excitation force a reference. These two Auto Sieve on Read options are mutually exclusive. "Disable empty response coordinates" disables any channels that have an empty response coordinate attribute. "Disable default response coordinates" disables any channel that has its response coordinate attribute equal to the default response coordinate as entered in the edit box to the right. This default response coordinate will most likely vary depending on the originating data acquisition software.