Preferences
Preferences, accessible under the wb_view menu
(Mac) or File menu
(PC or Linux), allows one to tailor the Workbench viewing
environment to one's preference. Changes to Preferences are saved
between Workbench sessions. Options include:
Colors
- Buttons to set the Foreground
(chart axes, colorbar labels, etc.) and Background
colors for All types of views, or Chart, Surface, or Volume
views separately.

ID
- Show Surface ID Symbols to
enable display of identification symbols on surfaces.
- Show Volume ID Symbols to enable
display of identification symbols on volume slices.

Misc
- Logging Level to set the
logging default for the terminal window (sometimes
useful for examining bugs).
- Save/Manage View Files to set
which files are listed upon opening the Save/Manage
Files dialog (in the File Menu):
All, Loaded, Loaded:Modified, Loaded:Not Modified, Not
Loaded.
- Settings to show/hide the Develop
Menu and show/not show the Splash
Screen at Startup.

New
Tabs
- Yoked to
Group A to set On/Off whether newly created tabs
are by default Yoked
to the Group A yoking group.
- Volume
Axes Crosshairs to set On/Off display of axes lines in
all Volume views.
- Volume Axes Labels to set
On/Off display of superior (S)/inferior (I) and left
(L)/right (R) axes in all Volume views.
- Volume ID Moves Slice Selection
to set in newly created Tabs, On/Off movement of the volume slice/crosshairs
displayed to the same plane as the brainordinate selected in
that tab (or a yoked surface/volume tab).
- Volume Montage Slice Coord to
set On/Off display of x, y, or z coordinate slice position
in all Volume slice plane views.
- Volume Montage Precision to
set the decimal point precision of x, y, or z coordinate
slice position values in all Volume slice plane views.
OpenGL
- Setting for the Image Capture
Method (OpenGL computer code) used by wb_view to
capture an image of the Viewing Window. Changing this
setting might resolve problems with image capturing on your
system.
