Color Bar Toolbox
The Color Bar toolbox controls the properties of the color bar.
- If the Color Bar toolbox is not visible, display it by clicking
the Toolbox menu and selecting Color Bar.
- Clicking Default will
assign default settings to the selected tab. Default settings are given in
parentheses below.
The Source tab allows you to specify whether the color bar displays data for the active data set or the pathlines.
- The Limits tab allows you to:
- Set the scalar value at the blue and red limits. The default settings are:
- blue = minimum scalar value at the current time
- red = maximum scalar value at the current time
- Specify a linear color bar by unchecking the logarithmic scale option. (This is the default setting.)
- Specify a logarithmic color bar by checking the logarithmic scale option.
- Interchange the scalar values at the blue and red limits by clicking Reverse.
- The Size tab allows you to:
- Set the width of the color bar in pixels. (20)
- Set the height of the color bar in pixels. (200)
- Set the offset distance in pixels from the right edge of the color bar to
the right side of the display area. (100)
- The Labels tab allows you to:
- Set the font size (in points) of the labels. (14)
- Set the number of labels. (5)
- Set the precision (number of significant places) of the labels. (2)
- Set the label color to black, gray, or white. (black)
- The Colors tab allows you to:
- Select the Default color scheme
- Select the Modified color scheme which is similar to the default except that the thickness of the yellow and aqua portions of the color bar have been increased at the expense of the green, red, and blue portions of the color bar.
- Select a Custom color scheme in which the beginning and ending colors are selected by the user.
If the Custom color scheme is selected, the user clicks the Choose First Color or Choose Last Color buttons to choose the colors of the endpoints of the color bar.
- The Crop tab allows you to:
- Specify the Min and Max positions of the x, y, and z cropping planes.
(Min = 0, Max = 1)
- Specify the Delta value, which is used to increase or decrease the
Min or Max position when the up or down arrow is clicked. (0.1)
- Specify the Crop Angle to rotate the x and y cropping planes.
The crop angle can be from -45 to 45 degrees. (0)