When you insert a new Container into a model, it inherits the properties (e.g., background color, influence appearance) of its parent Container. However, this inheritance is only applied when the new Container is created, and the properties of the new Container are not linked to the properties of the parent (e.g., if you subsequently change the parent’s background color, it will not change the background color of any existing child).
In some cases, however, you may wish to apply (copy) one or more of the graphical properties that you have defined for one Container to another existing Container in your model. GoldSim provides the ability to do this.
At the bottom of the Graphics tab of the Container dialog, GoldSim provides a text button allowing you to Click to apply these settings to other containers or subcontainers:
Note: The Container dialog
can be accessed by right-clicking anywhere in the graphics pane and selecting
Properties… from the context menu, by right-clicking on a Container and
selecting Properties, or by double-clicking on a Container.
When you click on this text, the following dialog is displayed:
In the top part of the dialog, you specify the Container to which you wish to copy the graphical settings. If you click the Apply to nested containers checkbox, the settings will also be copied to all of the nested subcontainers within the selected Container.
Note: If you wish to copy
the settings to all the Containers in your model, select the main Container
(called “Model”), and check the Apply to nested containers
button.
The “Update Attributes” section of the dialog allows you to select which settings you would like to apply. This is a tree that expands. If you want to apply all of the attributes at a particular level, check the box at the branch (e.g., Update Graphic Pane Attributes) and it will select all the items below it. Alternatively, you could open a branch, and clear some of the checkboxes so only certain attributes are copied:
After selecting the Container(s) to copy the attributes to, and the attributes to be copied, click the OK button to copy the settings.