Playback

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The playback control allows you to change the playback speed of the simulation within reason. It also has properties for configuring the time bar seen at the bottom of the workspace.

Playback Control Properties

Playback Control

Playback Rate
This is a scale factor for the speed of the simulation. If it is at 1 then it tries to run so that 1 second of simulation time is 1 second of real time. Values greater than 1 try and speed the simulation up. Values between 1 and 0 slow the simulation down. So if this property is 100 then it tries to run so that 100 seconds of simulation time is 1 second of real time. However, this is not perfect. The system can only usually get it to run at a speed that is approximately correct. Also, the playback rate is going to depend heavily on the speed of the simulation. If you have simulation that is running at 100% cpu that takes 1 second of real time to produce 0.1 seconds of simulation time then you are not going to be able to speed this up anymore using this property. However, you could slow it down by setting this value to 0.01.
Default value: 1
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0.

Start Paused
If this is true then the simulation always starts paused. If it is false then it is started running.
Default value: False
Acceptable range: True/False

Time Bar Settings

Actual Time Color
Sets the color used for the actual time in the controller time bar.
Default value: Light Blue
Acceptable range: Any Color

Automatic Tim Scale
Determines whether the time bar will automatically scale itself when the time nears the end of bar.
Default value: True
Acceptable range: True/False

Current Time Color
Sets the color used for the current time in the controller time bar.
Default value: Dark Blue
Acceptable range: Any Color

Division Mark Height
Sets the height of the division mark factor in the time bar.
Default value: 4
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

Divisions
Sets the number of divisions used for the time bar.
Default value: 10
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

End Time
Sets the ending time used for the controller time bar.
Default value: 5000 ms
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

Major Interval
Sets the major interval used for the time bar.
Default value: 1
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

Middle Mark Height
Sets the height of the middle mark factor in the time bar.
Default value: 3
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

Start Time
Sets the starting time used for the controller time bar.
Default value: 0 ms
Acceptable range: Any value greater than or equal to 0

Time Bar Interval
Determines how often the the time bar updates its information.
Default value: 1 s
Acceptable range: Any value greater than 0

Time Scale
Sets the time scale used for the time bar.
Default value: Seconds
Acceptable range: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds