tbutton on their
command toolbar.Setting Application Properties
Mira provides commands for changing the properties of various aspects of the application, its commands, measurements, and packages. Many properties used for image display, measurement, and plotting have both default and local values you can tailor to a specific Image Window.
Properties in the following table apply to Image Windows and use both default settings and local settings.
Default Properties are global in scope and are adopted by each newImage Window when the window is created. Default properties can be saved in Profiles so that particular groups of properties can be easily recalled. The current profile in effect for a particular property is used used when the window is created. These properties are set using commands in theView > Default Properties menus.
Local Properties are values changed after the Image Window is created. They affect all measurements made in the specific window but not other windows that may be open. Their values are taken from the Default Properties and may be changed for each particular window using commands in the View > Local Properties menu for Image Windows. Only the local properties of the top-most window are changed.
Properties Having Both Default and Local Settings
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Sets Image Window background and whether the Image Toolbar is displayed, and the default state of the Image Set Flags. |
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Set Image Cursor shape, color, and default size. |
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Sets default line color, thickness, and other properties for plots created from displayed images. |
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Sets parameters for measuring centroid coordinates. |
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Sets parameters for measuring FWHM values. |
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Sets parameters for measuring FWHM values when plotting a radial profile fit. |
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Sets parameters for creating histogram plots. |
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To save default properties for the transfer function, see the section "Saving Default Transfer Function Properties" in the Transfer Function Pane topic. |
This includes the leftover properties that do not fit into the other categories.
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Sets general default properties not related to measurements, etc. For example, this is where you enablet the warning for closing unsaved plots and measurement results. This dialog is opened using theView > Default Properties > General Properties command. |
These properties are changed within command
packages or from menu commands for windows other than
Image Windows. Many
are launched using the tbutton on their
command toolbar.
Procedure and Windows Specific Properties
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Set Grid Control columns, colors, print settings, etc. |
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Set properties for making photometric measurements using the Aperture Photometry package. |
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Control the way an astrometric coordinate calibration is computed. |
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Sets the resampling filter, transformation type, background value, etc. for Registering Images. |
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Control the many settings involved in extracting features and sources from images using the Source Extraction package. |
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Changes the colors, lines, etc. of plot series after a plot is drawn in a Plot Window. |
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Configures the axes, labels, titles, colors, etc., of Plot Windows after the plot is created. |
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Printing Properties (Reports) |
These properties control the print position on paper and additional information printed. Printing Properties are opened from File > Print Properties menu command. |
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Set parameters that control drawing markers on images, including color, line thickness, and font. |