Material Dialog

This dialog window is accessible from the Layers page of Settings Dialog.

• The user is provided with two Materials catalogs: the Main catalog and the Custom catalog accessible through the material dialog.
• Materials from a current Material Catalog are listed in List Box. Refractive index edit controls represent the Material refractive index values of selected Material name for the wavelength specified in General page and indicated above refractive index values. The user can check the refractive index wavelength dependence (the Graph button).
• The right mouse button click at List Box activates the Popup Menu with following options:
  Add Material,
  Edit Material,
  Copy Material,
  Remove Material and
  Insert Material.
  The first two options open the Material Editor dialog window.
  The other options allow reordering Materials in Catalogs or copying Material from one catalog to another for the user convenience.
  To protect the Main catalog from an accidental changes the Edit Material option is available only for the Custom catalog.
  To edit the Main catalog record copy it to the Custom catalog and after editing copy it back to the Main catalog.
• Clear Selection button removes an assignment of Material for appropriate media from Layers page keeping the current refractive index value.
• Sort button allows sorting Materials names in alphabetical order.
• Ok applies all changes in this dialog as described below and hides it.
  If Material name is selected this Material will be assigned to the specified medium which takes the Material refractive index for any given wavelength, otherwise the medium will not be related to any Material and current refractive index of this medium will be used for all wavelengths;
  All Materials changes will be saved in both Material Catalogs.
• Cancel abolishes all current changes in this dialog and hides it.

Note In case the Material name is present in both catalogs the software will take a data from the Main catalog.