Options - Environment - Parameter Sets

Use the Options > Environment > Parameter Sets dialog box to save all of the parameter sets in a file, and to import exported parameter sets.

What exactly, are parameter sets?

A parameter set comprises settings that you have made for a specific function, such as the image calibration, and which you have also saved as a file. You can create such parameter sets in a variety of dialog boxes, and when you later need them, load them again. More information on how to save parameter sets can be found here.

Some examples: In numerous tool windows you'll find this button bb_save, with which you can create parameter sets. Here are a few examples:

Calibrate Image

Pseudo Color

Save Current Layout

 

Description of the function groups

Exporting parameter sets

Importing parameter sets

Exporting parameter sets

In the Export group, select the My parameter sets option when you only wish to export your own, not published, parameter sets.

In the Export group, select the Sets for all users option if you want to make the published parameter sets also available to other users.

Click the Export Parameter Sets button to open the Export Parameter Sets dialog box. Assign a descriptive name, under which you wish to save the file with the parameter sets. A file with parameter sets has the file extension EXP. When you export, you always export all of the available parameter sets in one single file. The parameter sets from the Calibrate Image dialog box are, therefore saved together with the parameter sets from the Pseudo Color dialog box all of the other available parameter sets.

Why export parameter sets?

Export parameter sets, for example, to make them available to other users or other PCs on which the software has been installed.

Exported parameter sets that have been inadvertently deleted can be restored by means of an import.

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Importing parameter sets

Use the options in the Import group to import parameter sets that have been exported.

In the Import group, select the My Parameter Sets option, when the imported parameter sets are to be assigned the Private access status. Private parameter sets are identified by this icon icon_user_palette. These parameter sets are only available to you. When another user logs on to your PC and starts your software, these parameter sets are not visible to him.

In the Import group, select the Set for all users option, when the imported parameter sets are to be assigned the Public access status. Public parameter sets are identified by this icon icon_standard_palette. These parameter sets are then available to all of the users of your software.

Note: When the parameter sets that you want to import have been saved with another access status, you'll receive a message. When that has occurred, you can still stop the import. When you then anyway import the parameter sets, by doing so, you change the access status automatically. Because of that, it can happen that you subsequently have two parameter sets with the same name. These parameter sets then only differ by their access status.

That is, e.g., the case, when you import public parameter sets with the My parameter sets option.

Click the Import Parameter Sets button to open the Import Parameter Sets dialog box.

Select the file you want, then click Open to import the parameter sets. The software will then make all of the parameter sets that are in the exported file available. When this happens, parameter sets that already exist with the same name will be overwritten.

In the Import Parameter Sets dialog box the path that was last used will be preset. Files with parameter sets will be imported into the 'ParamSets' directory. You'll find the directory in the same place where other application programs save their data. The exact location of the directory depends on which operating system you're using.

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