Appearance Options

General appearance adjustments can be made in the Options window. Run the Edit > Options command and switch to the Appearance tab.

Background

Background of the main screen may use default tiles or custom color.

Color scheme

There are the following color schemes predefined within the application: Light, Dark, Black, and Windows Color.

Language

Select the language to be used in GUI. The language pack is a part of the Local Option module.

Buttons on the Save prompt

Actual words used on buttons of the window which appears if an image has been modified and is about to be closed.

The Z value displayed in status bar

Having two Z devices, select whether to display Z1, Z2 or both on the main status bar.

Close ND Acquisition window after Run

The View > Acquisition Controls > ND Acquisition window will be closed automatically upon acquisition start.

Enable Z Intensity control

This option enables the View > Acquisition Controls > Z Intensity Correction panel.

Image Window Toolbars

You can decide whether the top and side image toolbar is integrated into the main toolbar (Common for all Images) or whether each image has its own set of toolbars (Visible for each image). The most space-saving option is to use shared toolbars and hide the image status bar and the ND2 control bar (Control Bar) automatically (Common for all images, auto hide bottom toolbar). It will show up only when the mouse cursor rolls over the bottom part of the image.

In the Right toolbar section you can select the appearance of buttons having more sub-options. See Image Window .

Show channel tabs

Show channel names and colors in the image window status bar.

Show layout tabs

Show layout tabs in the main status bar.

Show task bar

If unselected, the Windows task bar will be hidden.

Default vertical docker on the

Select the preferred side for the default vertical docking pane.

Keep text size while zooming

When selected, text annotations will not be zoomed with the image. See View > Analysis Controls > Annotations and Measurements .

Allow zooms lower than Fit to Screen

When selected, the image can be resized to be smaller than displayed using the View > Zoom > Fit to Screen command.

Lock camera magnification

If you are used to switch between two camera modes (resolutions), this option ensures that the scene observed does not change its size or position.

Keep picture window aspect

If checked, the image window respects the image size while zooming.

Initial Zoom

You can select the zoom factor of the newly opened images. The options are Best Fit, 200, 100, 50, 25%.

Initial zoom 100% for Live and Capture

Whenever a new Live or Captured window is opened, the zoom will be automatically set to 100%.

Default Volume View Rendering Engine

Select the engine used in the Volume Viewer.

See: View > Image > ND View > Volume View for more information.