Main Tkgraph Display
Main Tkgraph Display:
- Top Menubar
- File menu
- Load Template
- Loads a previously saved template. The grpahing page
must be cleared before loading a new template.
- Save Template
- Saves the current page layout as a template that can
be loaded at a later time.
- Load Data from File
- Loads data from an ascii file. Currently only 2 column
data can be loaded.
- Print Page
- This entry opens up a
print dialog to enable
printing the contents of the page.
- Show Control Panel
- This entry will open up the
Tkgraph Control Panel.
The control panel
allows the user to change the
appearance of the current page. Graphs may be
rearranged, resized, moved, deleted, added, ticked,
and labeled from the control panel.
- Close
- This closes the Tkgraph window.
- Options menu
- Autoscale graphs after plotting
- Selecting this option will cause each graph to be
autoscaled after it has received new data to plot.
- AS button
- Pressing this button will autoscale all of the selected graphs.
A small buffer is drawn between the limits of the datasets
the graph boundaries.
- ARR button
- Pressing this button will open up the Control Panel to
the section where the user can set the page arrangement.
- CG button
- Pressing this button will delete the datasets from every
selected graph on the page. Graphs which are not selected
are ignored.
- CP button
- Pressing this button will delete every graph and
miscellaneous item from the page.
- Shortcut toolbar
- This toolbar contains a set of buttons that can be used as
shortcuts for creating new items on the page. Buttons for
creating the following items are included:
- text
- rectangles
- lines
- circles
- ovals
- Graphing Page
- This white window is the canvas on which graphs, labels,
datasets, and geometric shapes are drawn. In the default
mode this canvas has no bindings to mouse clicks or keyboard
presses. This will change depending on which mode the canvas
is currently in.
- Help entry
- The entry area at the bottom of the display may contain some
brief help information. This information is usually updated
depending on the location of the mouse on the display.
- Tag entry
- This is only useful for debugging purposes. This area
displays the canvas tags for the current canvas item. It
is very useful to see if a canvas item has a normal or disabled
state.
- Position entry
- This entry shows the current position of the mouse
on the graphing page. The units are pixels measured from
the upper left corner.
- gids entry
- This entry displays the current list of gids for the page.
This information is only useful for debugging purposes.
- cids entry
- This entry displays the current list of cids for the page.
This information is only useful for debugging purposes.
- gids entry
- This entry displays the current state of the selection
array. This information is only useful for debugging purposes.