PascGalois Zn Help: 1-D Cellular Automata Image Screen


The Image Screen

The image screen is where you will be doing most of your explorations.

The screen is fairly simple but it has many options in the menu system. We will discuss the layout and mouse options before going into each menu option. When exploring these images the main thing you as a user want to do is alter the color schemes to bring out information on the underlying structure. The layout of the screen is simple. The image is to the left and the element/color correspondence is on the right. There is a menu at the top and a status bar at the bottom. Directly above the color correspondence is a color scheme selector drop-down box. Each child window may have as many color schemes as you would like. The divider between the image and the element/color correspondence is movable.

When you move the mouse over the automaton the position you are pointing at and the value of the element at that position are displayed in the status bar and if you hover for a few seconds over the automaton the position and element are also displayed as a tool tip close to the cursor.

If you double-click on an element in the image or on an element in the element list a color chooser dialog box will appear allowing you to select a new color for that element.

If you right-click on the image or on an element in the element list a popup menu will appear with the options to change the element's color, to make the element transparent and to copy and paste a color. If you select to change the element's color the same color chooser dialog box will come up. If you select the transparent color option then the color in the element list for the selected element will be a box with an x through it, signifying a transparent color. When the graph is refreshed the background color will show through the transparent elements. Copy and paste will simply copy and paste the color to and from the system clipboard.

The Image Menu Options

The File Options



The Options Options



The Zoom Options



The Colors Options



The Counts & Data Options




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