How the Scenario Control Works

The Scenario control is a specialized control that allows you to: 1) select the Active Scenario, 2) run a scenario (or all scenarios); 3) add and delete scenarios; and 4) access the Scenario Data dialog.

The Scenario control looks like this when it is first added to a Dashboard and selected:

As can be seen, by default, the control consists of a drop-list, and four buttons (Run, Run All, + and -).

The eight handles allow you to resize the control. For more precise changes, you can also change the width of the control using Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right, and change the height using Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down. (The default change is 1 pixel at a time. If you press the Shft key, the change is 5 pixels).

You cannot select the font for a Scenario control. GoldSim always uses the default GUI font used by the operating system for the items in the drop list and the Run button. Resizing the control simply affects the length of the drop-list (which is valuable if your scenario names are long).

This dialog controls what appears in the Scenario control. By default, the first three buttons are checked. The first button (Run) allows you to run the scenario selected in the drop-list. The second button (Run All) runs all the scenarios. The third button (Add/Remove Scenario) allows the user to add a new scenario delete the selected scenario.

The fourth button (Show “Scenario Data” button) adds a button that provides access to the Scenario Data dialog (allowing Dashobard users to see and compare the various scenarios). The fifth button (Sort Scenario names in drop-list) sorts the scenarios in the control in alphbetical order (by default they are sorted by their order in the Scenario Manager). Clearing any of these boxes removes that particular option from the Scenario control in the Dashboard

Note: If you have multiple Scenario controls on your Dashboard(s), they are automatically linked and work in unison. That is, if you select a particular scenario in one control, it is selected in all controls.

Because scenarios are an advanced feature in GoldSim, and have the potential to cause confusion for a Player user who is unfamiliar with GoldSim, the control is designed so it behaves slightly differently depending on whether you are viewing the control within GoldSim or the GoldSim Player.