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2. Choose Frame Color or Frame Color (border) from the Settings®Display Properties
submenu to display the Color palette, for example:
Notes
The Zone Marker Color settings are not used in Protos 3.
The border color only applies to spiral frames. In particular, it is the color of the parts of the
spiral that are not included in the two sectors of a two-sector frame, and it is the color of the
inner boundary of an annular frame.
3. Either click on one of the Standard Colors in the palette to select it or press More
Colors to display a color picker allowing you to choose from a wider range of Standard
colors or to create your own Custom color.
To choose whether to show or hide tool tips showing the size of a colony when you hover over
it:
1. Press the Protos 3 button at the top left-hand corner of the window to display the Protos 3
menu.
2. Choose Show Colony Tool Tip or Show Colony Tool Tip from the Settings®Display
Properties submenu.
Database location
If you are using several Protos 3 instruments connected across a network, they can share a
single Protos 3 database. In order to do this, you will need to specify the location of the shared
database in each of the Protos 3 installations. Alternatively, you may have multiple databases
on the local database server on your PC, in which case, you can use the following procedure
to specify which one to use.
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