BenchIT-GUI Result Plotter
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Default Plot Informations
Default information is saved in the file BGUI.cfg and in StdColors.cfg When first viewing a file or a mixer is completely new, the default settings are used. These can be setted under Options->
- Set Default Plot Colors: Maybe the most often used. Set the default color sequence to use for all new plotted files
- Set Plot fonts: Sets the default used plot-fonts
- Set Standard plot comment/Set title: makes a lot of sense, if you use this.
- Set default Insets: sets the space around the plot
Notice: Whenever you close a plot, the information about it is saved! This information overrides the default setting!
General features
When looking at the plot, the following features are available:
- Zoom in: Position your cursor at the top-left-position of the new extract and click and hold the left mouse button and drag it to the lower right, until you have reached the position you want.
- Zoom out and auto-setup ticks: hold down mouse-button one and drag it to the upper-left
- Draw marker lines: Click the middle mous button to draw a vertical line, press Ctrl while clicking for a horizontal line and hold shift to define the exact x or y position of the line
- NEW (July 07): Hold shift while dragging the plot will scroll the "map", holding shift, while using the mouse wheel, will zoom in and out
Saving the plot as file
Use File->Save As... or right-click the plot and choose Save as ... then a dialog will open, asking for the name of the file
- Select the type (png,eps,...)
- Type the name
- Click okay
Notices:
- EPS-Files will be created with a rotation, if you want to include them in LATEX, rotate them by 270 degrees
- PNGs and JPGs will not contain the plot, as it is seen on your display. It will be scaled to the setted resolution.
- EMF-files seem to work only with MS-Products (e.g. PowerPoint) :( Sorry Linux-Community
Detaching plots
right-click the plot and select detache, to open a new window with a copy of this plot (use it to open more then one plot at the same time)
Setup-tab
Possible settings and their meaning:
- x min: minimum value for x axis
- x max: maximum value for x axis
- x ticks:
- if (x axis logbase<=1)(no logarithmic x axis), then this indicates the number of ticks for the x axis
- if (x axis logbase>1) (logarithmic x axis), it indicates how the values at the ticks are displayed:
- < 0 for tick-legends like 1,2,4,8,16,32,...
- >=0 for ticklabels like 2^0, 2^1, 2^2...
- x axis logbase: indicates, whether the x axis is logarithmic or not:
- > 1 use the setting as logarithmic base for the axis
- < 1 use a non-logarithmic axis
- xAxisText: sets the legend of the axis
Those values can also be set for the y-axis y (left) and (if available) y2(right)
- yScaler: scales the values depending on what is chosen (also adds the prefix to the yaxis)
- Scale also legends: add the prefix also to the legends of the yaxis
- Fill Points for each function on Y1axis: fills the shapes
- Show Lines for each function on Y1axis: draw lines between the points for every function on the yaxis
Those values cn also be set for the y2 axis (if it is available)
- Comment: here you can set a comment, which will be displayed in the plot
- X-Pos of the Comment(%): Procentual Value, where the comment shall be displayed for the x axis
- Y-Pos of the Comment(%): Procentual Value, where the comment shall be displayed for the y1 axis
Example: Comment=Nice feature, huh? X-Pos of the Comment(%):50 Y-Pos of the Comment(%):50 will indicate, that the comment (annotation) will be start at the middle of the plot Notification: Remember, that procentual values aren't what they seem to be on logarithmic axis!
- Title: here you can set the title for the function
- Insets: How much space shall be left on each side of the plot
- Reset: resets settings to default values
- Crosshair on: Enables a crosshair, which helps you finding your cursor over the plot ;)
- Change colors and names for single functions: starts a new Window which enables you to
- change the color: select the function in the combo box, select the color, press save
- change the name: select the function in the combo box, edit its name and press ave
- both ;)
- Change Plot fonts: opens a new window, which enables you to set the fonts for
- Title
- Axisnames
- Legends
- Comment (annotation)
- Ticks
Switch to text-view
When clicking the button for toggle between text and grafical view, the plotted file will be displayed, if available.
