The Container Properties Dialog

Like any element in GoldSim, you can edit the properties of a Container by double-clicking on it either in the graphics pane or the browser, or right-clicking anywhere inside the graphics pane when inside the Container, and selecting Properties…. The properties dialog looks like this:

By default, a Container has three tabs: General, Graphics, and Information.

Note: If you turn on some of the other features for a Container, additional tabs are added.

Within the General tab (shown by default), the top part of the dialog allows you to enter and edit the ID, Description and Appearance of the element.

Within the middle portion of the General tab, you can select which Features you would like the Container to have. By default, it has none of these features (it is a simple Container). If you click on the name of a feature, a brief description of the feature will appear in the Details window. Features are added and removed using the checkboxes to the left of the feature name.

At the bottom of the General tab are options to Save/Enable Results. By default, a Container does not have any outputs of its own, and the first two checkboxes are grayed out. Under some conditions (e.g., making the Container conditional), it does have outputs, and in this case, these checkboxes become available for editing. The third option (to Enable Time History Result Elements) will be grayed out unless the Container includes some Time History Result elements (in which case it will be checked on). This allows you to globally disable all Time History Result elements inside the Container.

The Graphics tab of the Container provides access to options for controlling the appearance of elements inside the Container (e.g., size of the graphics pane, and the manner in which the influences between elements are drawn).

The Information tab of the Container provides summary information for the Container, such as the total number of elements it contains, and the size of the results being saved inside the Container. It also provides the ability to recursively turn off result saving for all elements inside the Container.