Modifying a palette

The image view depend much upon proper correspondence between color and height -- palette. Several specially designed palettes are present in the program, still an opportunity to develop your own palette exists for a user. If the palette is absent at the Tool Bar, it can be called by putting a tick in the Menu View/ Tool bars against Scale. The choice of current palette is done by Mouse click on the palette image using Right Button - the Menu with all palettes listed appears.

The Command Custom palette of the falling Menu calls the window of the construction of new palette (fig. 3.5). You can adjust each component color - height dependence separately in this window. The button``Smooth'' is used to smooth the drawn curve. The palette can be saved using the button ``Save''. The saved palette can be read using the Command ``Load''. Press the button``Ok''and the created palette will become current.

Figure 3.5: Modifying a palette

There is a field Auto Scaling in the falling menu, which can be called by clicking right button of the mouse. If you put a tick against this field then the palette will be automatically expanded to the whole height range, from minimal to maximal values of the height in the image. If the tick is missed, two moving strips will appear in the palette of the Tool Bar. In this case the whole color range of the palette will correspond to the sub-range, corresponding to the distance between the moving stripes. If the tick stands against in the menu View against Auto Refresh, then the movement of the stripes will lead to the refreshment of the image in the active window in automatic way. To perform manual refreshment press the button or choose the Menu Command View/ Refresh.

If you coose one pallete, it will be used for all images you open as well as for opend ones, if you refresh (reload) them. This behavior can be changed for an image, if user put a tick against the menu item View/ Remember Palette. In this case whatever pallete is chosen, it dosen't affect this particular image. And, if an image was saved with menu item Remember Palette checked, it will open next time with this particular palette, which was saved with a image file.