Help for Sliders

CHANGING PARAMETER VALUES:
There many ways to change the value of the variables controlled by the sliders.

• Put the cursor on the little box in the slot below the label (the slider "handle"), hold down the mouse button, and drag the handle until the desired value appears in the box. The slider handle can be pulled beyond the range of the gray bar to set values outside of the nominal range of the slider.
• Click the mouse button in the gray bar containing the box to move the box towards the cursor by 10% of the full range. Holding the button down, the slider will continue to move in steps of the same size, even continuing out of the nominal range of the slider.
• If the slider is off scale, clicking in the gray bar will return the slider towards the normal range. Hold down the button to continue the return.
• Click either of the small triangles to move it by a small increment. Holding the button down, the slider will continue to move in steps of the same size, even continuing out of the nominal range of the slider.
• When the slider is off scale, it may still be incremented in either direction in small steps by clicking on the small triangles.
• Type a new value in the entry box over the slider, which displays the current value. To activate the entry box so that you can type in it, click in it with the mouse button. (A double click clears the current contents from the box.) When the number in the window is changed, the text turns red to indicate that the current value of the variable does NOT equal the number in the box. To change the variable, press the Enter key. If the typed number is not a valid value for that variable, (a decimal number for something that should be an integer, a number which is too big or too small) a message box will pop up to tell you, and won't go away until you click "OK" or press the Enter key. After this, go back and fix the slider, or else the program will run with the old parameter value.

ALTERING THE SLIDER:
Several parameters characterizing the slider may be changed by clicking in the small rectangular box at the right end of the slider. Options in the configure window include:

• minimum: sets the left hand limit of the slider range.
• maximum: sets the right hand limit of the slider range.
• increment: sets the size of the small incremental steps triggered by clicking the small triangles at the end of the slider.
• close: simply closes the configure dialog box.

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