Subsections
Changing SciCraft Settings
Many important settings in SciCraft can be changed through the
Preferences dialog box. To access the settings choose File in
the main menu, then Preferences. The preferences dialog contains
three different tabs with different settings the user can modify. Each
tab is explained in the following subsections.
The General Preferences tab contains settings allowing the user
to adjust the user interface, including settings width and color of
lines and background color in the module diagram. It is also possible
to change the current look of the application to match a specific
operating system.
In the General Preferences tab you have the option to enable
function optimalization. This feature comes into play when you have
several function nodes connected. These nodes will then be combined to a
single function script that can be executed within a single process. So
far this feature only affects Octave function nodes.
Modifying function paths
If you store your functions in other locations than the directory
``Functions'' under SciCraft's home directory, you need to add the
locations in SciCraft. To add new paths, access the Function
Path tab (similar to Figure 2.18). A list of your current
paths are displayed. To add a new path, write it in the editline, or
click ``Browse'' to select it in a filebrowser, and use the add button
to add it to the list. All functions within the directories should now
be available as nodes in SciCraft.
Figure 2.18:
SciCraft preferences, and changing paths.
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When using Collect & Run, as described in section
2.2.7, it is possible to store data to disk when
exiting SciCraft. This makes the kept output data available when
starting SciCraft next time, and makes it possible to use Collect
& Run on nodes dependent on that data without having to run the
previous nodes.
To enable storing such data between runs of SciCraft, the program
cache has to be enabled. The cache is enabled by default and data is
stored in a subdirectory within the users home directory. Since the
amount of data can be quite large in some calculations, it is possible
to change the cache path to another directory or clear all data in the
currently set cache directory.
When setting the cache to a specific directory, all cache entries will
be stored in a subdirectory called cache. When clearing the
cache, only files in this subdirectory will be deleted.
Changing the warning limit will not affect how or when cache is
stored, but it will report a warning to the user if the limit is
exceeded, allowing the user to clear the cache, or turn it
off. Setting the limit to
turns warnings off.
For more information on Collect & Run functionality, see
section 2.2.7.
SciCraft Development Team