To start Corelyzer double click on the Corelyzer icon. If you start up Corelyzer for the first time, a preferences configuration window will show up. The window is the Corelyzer Preferences window. Using this preferences window you can specify your scratch disk location, display settings, and some user interface features.
Corelyzer will use part of your hard disk to store pre-processed different levels of imagery blocks. Also, for some images that are not available in user’s machine, but their URLs are provided, Corelyzer can download them to the download directory specified here. It is recommended to select a bigger and fast hard disk.
Here you can set the display configuration that Corelyzer will use. More often than not you will have it match the display configuration you setup with your operating system (See above sections). The Display Configuration window will store your settings. Once you have set this up the first time, Corelyzer will load the saved configurations every time after without popping up the preferences window.
Rows, Columns: define how many monitors do you have and how they are arranged.
Screen Width, Screen Height: define the size of a single monitor in pixels. If you start the Preferences configuration for the first time, the full screen dimension will be used.
Screen DPI X, Screen DPI Y: DPI stands for "dots per inch". These defines the mapping from pixels to physical measurement. In most cases, you can leave them as default values.
Column Offset, Row Offset: Defines the offsets of the visualization area from the origin (upper-left corner of the primary monitor).
Border Tickness: The visualization takes into account the monitor border in tiled displays setup. In most cases, you can leave them with the default values.
Auto check version in startup: if the program automatically check for latest update in startup.
Lock core section image: if the program will make loaded section image stationary (user can not move it to arbitrary depths).
Use Quaqua: if the program will use "Quaqua" library to make the user interface components more Mac-like (only for Mac).
Double clicks to zoom to section: if zoom in/out with double click.
Graph auto-scale: if the plotting graphs automatically scale during zoom in and zoom out.
Annotation icon auto-scale: if the annotation icons automatically scale during zoom in and zoom out.
Show origin axis: if show the visualization origin axis.
Show section labels: if show the section label if no images are available (with loaded graphs).
Canvas Always Below: if the visualization area always below all external applications on the desktop.
Depth-scroll in vertical depth mode: if the mouse wheel action interpreted as scroll along the depth instead of default zoom in/out action when the depth mode is set to "vertical".
Horizontal or Vertical Depth: defines the depth orientation. The depth is defined from left to right (deeper) by default (horizontal depth). If "Vertical Depth" is selected, the depth will mean from top to below (deeper).
Canvas background color: defines the background color of the visualization canvas.
Canvas grid: enable/disable and defines the background measurement grid parameters. In "Grid Type", 5 types of grid are supported: Basic Cross, Horizontal Lines, Vertical Lines, Points and Cross Points.
