User manual

Appendices
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Graphs
Display a graph or histogram of image colour map.
The displayed information and its position can be customised via one or more
specification files. The search path for the specification files is given in the
main preference file general.prefs.
Configuration
Grids, HUDs, Masks and Graphs are configured via plain text files searched
for in folders specified in the main configuration file general.prefs.
Parameter
Default
File Extension
monitorMaskDir
monitorMasks/
.masks
monitorGridDir
monitorGrids/
.grids
monitorGraphDir
monitorGraphs/
.graphs
monitorHeadUpDisplayDir
monitorHUDs/
.grids
Each specific parameter specifies a folder from which corresponding
specification files will be loaded.
Multiple specification files per folder will be loaded and aggregated
Only files with the specified extensions are loaded
Parameters can be repeated, specifying multiple folders to search
Specification files located are global and available to all projects
Example
An example general.prefs line that specifies three folders to be searched :
monitorGrids "monitorGrids\" "\\server\testgrids\" "C:\Grids\"
Global Versus Project Specific
Specification files located inside folders described in the general.prefs file will
be global and available to all projects.
Specification files can be kept private to a project by placing them inside a
corresponding default named folder inside the project folder i.e.