D3PLOT 22.1

Menu "Auto Expansion"

A few of the menus in D3PLOT are too narrow when first mapped to show all the columns of their data, so by default "auto expansion" is enabled. This causes the menus to widen themselves, typically to 90% of the enclosing width available, after a brief delay. You can control this behaviour using Options > Expand Menus as follows:

By default menu auto-expansion is ON , but you can suppress it by turning it OFF.

Controlling the speed and delay:

You can also control:

DELAY the time interval between the mouse entering a window, and the window starting to expand.

The delay time is controlled as a factor on the default behaviour.

The actual delay time will vary from system to system depending upon the Window system and underlying speed, but a typical delay will be approximately 0.5 seconds.

SPEED (Not shown here) is the rate at which the menu expands and contracts.

As above it is controlled as a factor on the default speed.

Saving Menu Auto Expansion Settings

The menu expansion parameters may be saved for future PRIMER sessions by setting the "oa_pref" file options:

d3plot*menu_expand:	ON \| OFF
d3plot*menu_expand_delay:	Floating value in the range 0.1 ... 5.0
d3plot*menu_expand_speed:	Floating value in the range 0.1 ... 5.0

Full details of all "oa_pref" file options and environment variables are given in Appendix B

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