- <b>Language</b>
- <b>Current language</b> - the language used by the application
GUI. The language change will come in force only after the application is restarted.
+ - <b>Use C locale</b> - when checked, the C locale will be set for the application,
+ otherwise a system locale will be used. The locale change will come in force only after
+ the application is restarted.
- <b>Look and feel</b>
+ - <b>Show splash screen at start-up</b> - allows showing or hiding the splash screen at start-up.
- <b>Opaque resize</b> - force opaque resize mode for viewers area (tabbed workspace).
Clear this checkbox for less perfomant workstations.
- <b>Drop-down buttons in toolbars for action groups</b> - when
the SALOME platform.
- <b>ASCII save</b> - if checked in, your study will be saved in
ASCII format file (or files).
+ - <b>Automatic loading of light modules when opening study</b> - if checked in,
+ Light Modules of the current study will be automatically loaded at the next study
+ opening, allowing completion of object browser.
- <b>Store positions of windows</b> - if checked in, positions of windows
will be saved in a special file at the end of the current session and
then restored for a new session.
- <b>Store/restore last GUI state</b> - if checked in, all GUI settings are
saved with the rest of the data whenever you save the study. When the
study is reopened, the GUI state is restored.
- - <b>Multi file python dump</b> - allows to generate multiple files
- (separately for each component) for dumping of a study to a python script.
- If the option is disabled, the study is dumped to a single python script.
- <b>Publish in study in python dump</b> - if this option is switched on,
the Python script resulting from Dump Python operation will
include commands related to the publication of the data in the
study (if this option is supported by specific module).
+ - <b>Multi file python dump</b> - allows to generate multiple files
+ (separately for each component) for dumping of a study to a python script.
+ If the option is disabled, the study is dumped to a single python script.
- <b>Save GUI state in python dump</b> - if this option is switched on,
the Python script resulting from Dump Python operation will
include commands related to the GUI state.
-- <b>External browser</b> - allow to define what browser will
+- <b>External browser</b> - allows to define what browser will
be used to show SALOME reference manuals: internal (built-in
SALOME browser) or external (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, ...). In
addition, it is possible to specify
default, Mozilla is used.
- \b Parameters - additional parameters required for launching of
the external browser (if applicable).
-- <b>Python console</b> - here you can quickly set the parameters
- (style, size, face) of the \ref font_color_dlg "font" used in
- embedded Python console.
+- <b>Python console</b>
+ - \b Font - allows quickly setting the parameters (style, size, face) of the
+ \ref font_color_dlg "font" used in embedded Python console.
+ - <b>Show banner</b> - this option allows to show/hide the Python banner
+ on top of the console window.
- <b>Show MRU items</b> - allows to define the maximum \b Number of
items in <b>Most Recently Used</b> list and the <b>Link type</b>:
- \b Long - shows the full path to the file.
- \b Short - shows the file name only.
- \b Auto - shows full paths to the files only if some files from
different locations have the same name.
+- <b>Full-screen</b>
+ - <b>Hide object browser and viewers toolbars</b> - switches automatic hiding of
+ Object Browser and OCC viewer toolbar in full-screen mode.
<h2>3D Viewer Preferences</h2>
- <b>Trihedron</b> - viewer trihedron settings:
- <b>Size</b> - size of the coordinate axes (global trihedron)
displayed in the viewer.
- - <b>Relative size</b> - if this option is switched on, trihedron
+ - <b>Relative</b> - if this option is switched on, trihedron
axes scale to fit the size of the scene displayed in 3D viewer.
- <b>Show static trihedron</b> - allows to show/hide the static
mini-trihedron located in the bottom-left corner of the viewer.
\image html pref_salome_occviewer.png
+- <b>Projection mode</b> - sets the default projection mode for the viewers: Orthogonal or Perpective.
+- <b>Stereo render</b> - stereoscopic view settings:
+ - <b>Stereo type</b> - specifies a stereo pair type:
+ - Shutter glasses (OpenGL quad-buffer)
+ - Anaglyph
+ - Row-interlaced
+ - Column-interlaced
+ - Chess-board stereo for DLP TVs
+ - Horizontal-anamorphic (side-by-side)
+ - Vertical-anamorphic (Half OverUnder)
+ \note The stereo pair type selected in this combobox is applied
+ for all existing OCC 3D views with stereo rendering already turned on
+ within the same SALOME GUI session. It is not possible to use
+ different stereo modes in several OCC 3D views at the same time
+ within the same SALOME GUI session.
+ - <b>Anaglyph filter</b> - specifies the format of anaglyph stereo pair:
+ - Red-Cyan (default)
+ - Yellow-Blue
+ - Green-Magenta
+ - <b>Convergence distance type</b>: Absolute or Relative (default).
+ - <b>Stereographic focus value</b> - 1 by default.
+ - <b>IOD type</b> - Absolute or Relative (default).
+ - <b>Interocular distance (IOD) value</b> - 0.05 by default.
+ - <b>Reverse stereo</b> - option to swap left and right frames.
+ - <b>Enable V-Sync</b> - activates vertical synchronization.
+ - <b>Enable quad-buffer support</b> - allows quad-buffered rendering.
+ \note It is neccessary to enable quad-buffered stereoscopic rendering
+ manually in graphic driver settings. SALOME does not do it automatically.
+ \note All existing OCC 3D views should be re-created for quad-buffer support.
+
- <b>Background</b> - specifies the default background for the viewers,
separately for (for more details, refer to the \ref viewer_background
"this page"):
- <b>XZ View</b>
- <b>YZ View</b>
- <b>XY View</b>
+- <b>Selection</b>
+ - <b>Enable preselection</b> - switches preselection on/off.
+ - <b>Enable selection</b> - switches selection on/off.
+- <b>Clipping parameters</b> - specifies the default clipping plane parameters.
+ - <b>Color</b> - allows to change the color of the clipped region.
+ - <b>Use default texture</b> - if this option is switched on, the default texture
+ will be used for clipping texture, otherwise - the texture specified in "Texture" field.
+ - <b>Texture</b> - allows to change the texture of the clipped region (enable if "Use default texture" is switched off).
+ - <b>Modulate</b> - controls if "Texture" should be mixed with "Color" parameter or not.
+ - <b>Scale factor</b> - sets the scale factor for default and custom textures.
+- <b>Ray tracing</b> - specifies the default GPU ray-tracing parameters.
+ - <b>Depth</b> - defines maximum ray-tracing depth.
+ - <b>Specular reflections</b> - enables/disables specular reflections.
+ - <b>Adaptive anti-aliasing</b> - enables/disables adaptive anti-aliasing.
+ - <b>Shadows rendering</b> - enables/disables shadows rendering.
+ - <b>Transparent shadow</b> - enables/disables light propagation through transparent media.
+- <b>Light source</b> - allows to set default parameters for directional light source.
+ - <b>Color</b> - allows to change the color of light source.
+ - <b>Dx, Dy, Dz</b> - sets direction coordinates.
\anchor vtk_preferences
<h2>VTK 3D Viewer Preferences</h2>
or [-] keyboard buttons.
- <b>Modification Mode</b> - allows choosing between \b Arithmetic
and \b Geometrical progression used for zooming.
-- <b>Dynamic pre-selection</b> - switches dynamic pre-selection on/off.
+- <b>Stereo render</b> - stereoscopic view settings:
+ - <b>Stereo type</b> - specifies a stereo pair type:
+ - Crystal Eyes
+ - Red-Blue
+ - Interlaced
+ - Left
+ - Right
+ - Dresden
+ - Anaglyph
+ - Checkerboard
+ - Split View Port Horizontal
+ \note The stereo pair type selected in this combobox is applied
+ for all existing VTK 3D views with stereo rendering already turned on
+ within the same SALOME GUI session. It is not possible to use
+ different stereo modes in several VTK 3D views at the same time
+ within the same SALOME GUI session.
+ - <b>Anaglyph filter</b> - specifies the format of anaglyph stereo pair:
+ - Red-Cyan (default)
+ - Yellow-Blue
+ - Green-Magenta
+ - <b>Enable quad-buffer support</b> - allows quad-buffered rendering.
+ \note It is neccessary to enable quad-buffered stereoscopic rendering
+ manually in graphic driver settings. SALOME does not do it automatically.
+ \note All existing VTK 3D views should be re-created for quad-buffer support.
+- <b>Selection</b>
+ - <b>Preselection</b> - allows to choose among three possible preselection modes:
+ - <b>Standard</b> - this mode works quickly, by checking only
+ bounding boxes of objects. It does not deal with the order of actors in the view
+ or with their data (points/ cells).
+ - <b>Dynamic</b> - works directly with cells of actors, which provides the
+ exact area of preselection. This mode is much more slower.
+ - <b>Disabled</b> - switches off the preselection.
+ - <b>Enable selection</b> - switches selection on/off.
- <b>Spacemouse</b> - a mouse-like manipulator device specially designed
for working with 3D presentations, objects, etc. You can reassign the
actions listed below to any of its buttons.
\image html pref_salome_plot2dviewer.png
-- <b>Show legend</b> - this options specifies if it's necessary to
-show legend by default.
-- <b>Legend Position</b> - this submenu allows to set the default position
-of the legend, it can be located to the left, to the right, on top or
-on bottom of the graph.
-- <b>Legend font</b> - this allows to set type and face for the font of Legend item.
-- <b>Curve Type</b> - this allows to set the representation of graphs in
-your presentations. You can see only <b>Points</b>, points connected with
-<b>Lines</b> or points connected with smooth <b>Splines</b>.
-- <b>Marker Size</b> - this submenu allows you to set the size of
-markers in your graphs.
-- <b>Horizontal</b> and <b>Vertical axis scale</b> - this submenus allow you to set
-the scale for vertical and horizontal axes. It can be either <b>Linear</b> or
-<b>Logarithmic</b>. Note that the <b>Logarithmic</b> scale can be used only
-if the minimum value of corresponding component (abscissa or ordinate)
-of all points displayed in the viewer is greater than zero.
-If this condition is not met, the scale is switched to <b>Linear</b>
-automatically, even if it is set to <b>Logarithmic</b>.
- <b>Background color</b> - this submenu allows to select the background
color. Click on the colored line to access to the
\ref select_color_and_font_page "Select Color" dialog box.
-- <b>Legend font color</b> - this allows to select the color of the
-font of the legend item.
-- <b>Highlighted legend font color</b> - this submenu allows to select
-the color of the font of the selected legend item.
- <b>Selection color</b> - this submenu allows to select the color of
selected object in the viewer.
-- <b>Deviation marker color</b> - this submenu allows to select the
-color of the deviation marker.
-- <b>Deviation marker line width</b> allows to define line width of
-the deviation marker.
-- <b>Deviation marker tick size</b> allows to define size of the upper
-and lower horizontal lines of the deviation marker.
-
-<br><h2>Directories Preferences</h2>
+- <b>Viewer</b> - allows specifying the properties of the Plot 2D Viewer.
+ - <b>Curve Type</b> - this allows to set the representation of graphs in
+ your presentations. You can see only <b>Points</b>, points connected with
+ <b>Lines</b> or points connected with smooth <b>Splines</b>.
+ - <b>Marker Size</b> - this submenu allows you to set the size of
+ markers in your graphs.
+ - <b>Horizontal</b> and <b>Vertical axis scale</b> - this submenus allow you to set
+ the scale for vertical and horizontal axes. It can be either <b>Linear</b> or
+ <b>Logarithmic</b>. Note that the <b>Logarithmic</b> scale can be used only
+ if the minimum value of corresponding component (abscissa or ordinate)
+ of all points displayed in the viewer is greater than zero.
+ If this condition is not met, the scale is switched to <b>Linear</b>
+ automatically, even if it is set to <b>Logarithmic</b>.
+ - <b>Deviation marker color</b> - this submenu allows to select the
+ color of the deviation marker.
+ - <b>Deviation marker line width</b> allows to define line width of
+ the deviation marker.
+ - <b>Deviation marker tick size</b> allows to define size of the upper
+ and lower horizontal lines of the deviation marker.
+- <b>Legend</b> - allows specifying the properties of the legend.
+ - <b>Show legend</b> - this options specifies if it's necessary to
+ show legend by default.
+ - <b>Legend Position</b> - this submenu allows to set the default position
+ of the legend, it can be located to the left, to the right, on top or
+ on bottom of the graph.
+ - <b>Symbol type</b> you can select the type of legend item symbol from "Marker on line"
+ or "Marker above line"
+ - <b>Legend font</b> - this allows to set type and face for the font of Legend item.
+ - <b>Legend font color</b> - this allows to select the color of the
+ font of the legend item.
+ - <b>Highlighted legend font color</b> - this submenu allows to select
+ the color of the font of the selected legend item.
+
+\anchor default_python_preferences
+<h2>Python Viewer Preferences</h2>
+
+\image html pref_salome_pythonviewer.png
+
+\note The following settings are default and will be applied only for newly created Python viewers. Customization of already opened viewers can be done using local \ref custom_python_preferences "Preferences dialog box" called by clicking on the corresponding icon of \ref python_viewer_page "Python viewer toolbar".
+
+- <b>Font settings</b> allows setting font variant, size and style.
+
+- <b>Display settings</b> specifies the script representation in the viewer:
+
+ - <b>Enable current line highlight</b> switches on background coloring of the current line.
+ - <b>Enable text wrapping</b> wraps lines at the view border of the editor.
+
+ - <b>Center cursor on scroll</b> scrolls the script vertically to make the cursor visible at the center of the viewer.
+
+ - <b>Display line numbers area</b> shows a panel with line numbers of the script at the left border of the editor.
+
+- <b>Tab settings</b> allows displaying tab indentation as a certain number of white-spaces.
+
+- <b>Vertical edge settings</b> manages drawing of a vertical line at the specified column of the viewer.
+
+<h2>Directories Preferences</h2>
\image html pref_salome_directories.png
- <b>Enable auto-hiding</b> checkbox - hides the search tool
automatically after short perioud of time when it is not used.
- <b>Look and feel</b>
- - <b>Auto size for the first column</b> - this checkbox enables automatic
- resizing for the first column.
+ - <b>Auto size for “Name” column</b> - this checkbox enables automatic
+ resizing for the “Name” column.
- <b>Auto size for other columns</b> - this checkbox enables
automatic resizing for the other columns.
- - <b>Resize columns after expanding an item</b> - this checkbox enables
+ - <b>Resize columns on expand item</b> - this checkbox enables
resizing columns on expanding an object browser item.
- <b>Browse to the published object</b> - this combobox allows to enable
automatic browsing to the objects just published to the study (using GUI
