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Options Menu

Menus for the chosen
domain are listed in the menu bar. The default domain is D(iscrete) for certain discrete distributions.

The Options menu provides the following items:

Label Font
Text Font
Frame Size
Frame Color
Interior color
Save Configuration
Load Configuration
Default Configuration


Label Font

Specify the font style for the axes of the coordinate system in a graphics window. The standard dialog box is utilized.

Text Font

Specify the font style for text labels in graphics windows. Xtremes uses the font selected prior to switching to label mouse mode. The standard dialog box is utilized. Attention: although this option is named Choose Text Font, it does not refer to text windows.

Frame Size

Resize the window frame (i.e. the frame surrounding the actual curve) relative to the size of the entire window. The default value is ten percent which means that the frame covers one thenth of the window's area.
One can also change local values like the left border, for instance.

Frame Color

Select color of window frame. It is possible to specify own colors.

Interior color

Select color of window interior. It is possible to specify own colors.

Save Configuration

The current configuration (e.g. values of parameters) is saved to a file. It can be loaded again using the option Load Configuration.
The configuration file xtremes.cfg in the working directory is saved automatically when you quit Xtremes. It is loaded again upon the next start of Xtremes.
Use the option Default Configuration to assign default values to all parameters.

Load Configuration

Load existing configuration from disk. Specify filename (extension .cfg) and, optionally, directory.

Default Configuration

Default values are assigned to all parameters.

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Xtremes Group · updated Jun 21, 2005