Editing the Wheel Design properties
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Each wheel or dial design consists of a number of objects (wheel/dial components), and all objects have properties (characteristics) that you can change. An object's properties can have various values that determine how the wheel or dial looks when it is used in Solar Fire. The wheel itself is an object, as are any items that appear in the wheel, such as circles, signs, aspects etc.
All object properties initially have a default value set when a new object is added to the wheel or dial you are creating or editing, but all object properties can be changed to a different value. Most properties have only a few pre-defined values that you can change (e.g. True or False), while a few other properties have a great range of possibilities for the value which you can decide to give them (e.g descriptions, names of files etc).
The objects and properties in a wheel or dial design are...
•General Properties - items that relate to the whole design
•Circles - circles defining rings in which other objects are placed (up to 20)
•Planet Rings - positions of planet and angle text (1 for each chart)
•Extra Point Rings - positions of additional points and angle text (1 for each chart). These points are those that can be selected in the “Extra Ring Points” option of the Solar Fire Options menu.
•House Lines - lines delimiting house cusps (up to 2 per chart)
•Cusp Annotation - glyphs and text for each house cusp (up to 2 per chart)
•House Numbering - identification of house numbers (up to 2 per chart)
•Zodiac/Dial - zodiacal annotation or dial annotation (up to 2 per chart)
•Aspect Lines - lines showing aspects in a chart or between two charts
The values of the properties for any of these objects may be set by choosing the required object from the drop-down list box at the top right of the screen, and then editing the values of the individual properties which appear in the list below the drop-down box.
The radius of the Circles may also be altered by using drag-and-drop operations with the mouse directly on the displayed wheel.
>> To alter any property for an object
1.Select the required object from the drop-down list box
2.Click on the required property in the property list
This will cause the value of that property to be displayed and highlighted in the editing box at the top of the property list. Depending on the type of property, it is then possible to select a new value by one for the following methods...
a)Type a new value into the editing box (any property)
b)Select an entry from the drop-down list of possible values (only for properties with a pre-defined list of possible values, e.g. True/False, Solid/Dashed/Dotted, etc.)
c)Select a color from the palette by clicking on the > button (only for color properties)