The mouse cursor changes from an arrow to a hand when the cursor is
over a panel item that has properties. Click the right mouse button
to get a menu of available properties. The left mouse button is
reserved for selecting images to send to the clipboard or printer.
The menu items illuminated on the properties menu are determined by the item under the hand cursor. Here are some possibilities.
Variable Provides detailed information about the variable under the hand cursor.
History / View Shows all numerical values in the solution for a variable or group of variables in a graph. These values can be sent to the clipboard for import into another program such as a charting program.
History / Layout Lets you specify rows or columns as the format for numerical values in History / View.
Graph / Background Lets you save the current tracing in a graph as a background image for the graph, to be overwritten by subsequent solutions.
Graph / Mark Lets you mark one or more graphs with a vertical and/or horizontal line at the graph’s current value.
Graph / Refresh Lets you select the values displayed in a graph: all values, new values, recent values. The graph is refreshed using the specified values.
Change Applies to parameters. A dialog box lets you make parameter changes permanent , i.e. not set to default value on solution restart.
Hold down the left mouse button and drag to select part of a panel. Use the Edit / Select All menu selection to select all of a panel.
By default, images are sent to the clipboard in duplicate using two different graphics formats: Windows bitmap and Windows metafile. The receiving application will generally select the most appropriate format to paste from the clipboard. But, if this isn’t satisfactory, you can explicitly specify the graphics format for clipboard images using the Options / Clipboard menu selection.
Adjust the display speed using the Options / Display Speed menu selection.
Hint: You may know in advance the point in a solution that you want to return to. If so, when you are initially at that point in the solution, click the Options / Backup menu selection and note the value of the solution index. Then exit by canceling. Later on you can readily return to this point by selecting Options / Backup again and sliding the solution back to the solution index that you previously noted.
Hint: If you want to repeatedly return to a particular point in a solution, it might be useful to make an initial conditions file at that point (see Creating New Patients in another section).
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updated 03-21-05