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 text mode, automatic should always be entered without quotation marks. In graphics mode, GUI input widgets for parameters that can be set to automatic contain a checkbox to turn automatic behavior on and off, as shown in Figure 6.121.

Figure 6.121. An Automatic Widget

An Automatic Widget

Three automatic widgets, from the OOF.Microstructure.Create_From_ImageFile dialog box. The checkboxes between the equals signs and the input fields determine whether the parameter is set to automatic or not. Here, microstructure_name is not automatic, and a value has been entered for it. width and height are set to automatic, and their text input fields are inactive.


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