CinePlex v3 Manual - Plexon Inc

2.10.1.3 VTViewer Options
The Options button opens the VTViewer Options dialog box. This dialog box
includes controls for display colors, grids, and data input selections. The following
illustration shows the Options dialog box default settings.
The VTViewer Options dialog box provides the following controls:
• The Background Color and Axis and Label Color controls set the display
colors. The Current Position Marker Size control sets the size (in pixels) of
the on-screen marker that indicates the animal’s position. The Draw Grid
Lines control applies grid lines to the plot. The Spacing control sets the spacing
(in pixels) between the grid lines. The grid-line Color control sets the
color of the grid lines.
• In the Colors For Positions area, the color controls set the display color for
each LED being tracked. These position colors apply to the VTViewer display
only and they do not apply to the CinePlex Studio image. The user may
set these colors to match the LED colors set up to track in CinePlex Studio.
The user may also set them to the desired choice of colors.
• In the Tails area, the controls set the characteristics of the plot line (tail) that
tracks the current position marker. The Length control sets the length of the
tail in data points. The Line Width control sets the width of the line in pixels.
The Fade setting makes the tail slowly fade away as the target animal moves
about the arena. In the Data Point Markers Along Tails sub-area, the Color
control sets the color of the data points on the tails. The Size control sets the
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