OOF2: The Manual

Name

automatic — Set parameters automatically

Description

Many OOF2 parameters can be set automatically when you cannot or will not do it yourself. For example, the default name of a new Skeleton is skeleton. The default value of the max parameter in a contour plot is the largest data point. To use the default value of a parameter, set it to automatic.

In scripts and text mode, automatic should always be entered without quotation marks. In graphics mode, GUI input widgets for parameters that can be set to automatic display the text <automatic> in italics when otherwise empty. Typing anything in the input field will replace <automatic> with whatever is typed. Deleting everything will return the value to <automatic>.

Figure 6.125. Automatic Widgets

Automatic Widgets

Three automatic widgets, from the OOF.Microstructure.Create_From_ImageFile dialog box. A non-automatic value has been entered for microstructure_name. It can be returned to automatic by deleting the text. width and height are set to automatic and can be changed to other values by entering text.


If a name needs to be unique, automatically generated names may have <x> appended to them, just like other names do, as explained in Section 2.1.3.