Color By

Determines how the plot item will be colored.

There are three groups of options here: textual values, numeric values, and vector quantities. All choices are mutually exclusive; only one selection can be active at any time. With some choices an additional field is supplied; when they appear these are described in the tables below. Any vector quantity will supply an additional field to specify whether a component (x, y, or z) or the magnitude (mag) of the vector should be rendered.

Selecting “–>Add Prop” at the bottom of a selector will provide a dialog that allows the user to specify a new property to add to the list (and make it the active color by selection).

Selecting the labels ATTRIBUTES and PROPERTIES on a selector will do nothing; these are provided to assist with group differentiation.

Once the quantity/value/property to be colored is chosen in Color By, the user can handle the specifics of the coloring using the Color Opt attribute.

Table 1: Text Value options

Name	Description
extra	Colors by extra variable. An additional field is supplied to identify the variable by its index.
fixity	Colors by fixity.
group	Colors by group. An additional field is supplied to specify the slot index. The default setting is Any (which occupies index position 0 on the spinbox).

Table 2: Numeric Value options

Name	Description
extra	Colors by extra variable. An additional field is supplied to identify the variable by its index.
appliedpower
deltemp
sheat
temperature
thexp
unbalpower

Table 3: Vector Quantity options

Name	Description
extra	Colors by extra variable. An additional field is supplied to identify the variable by its index.

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