The appearance and the location of the PlotData window can be modified.
Graph appearance modification
When the graph window is displayed, right click on the graph to modify its attributes.
The following graph properties will be saved into Step.GraphParams:
Graph general properties
· FG_Color—Graph foreground color (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
· BG_Color—Graph background color (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
· ScrollVis—X-axis scroll bar visible.
Graph X scale and Y scale
· Style—Scale Style (0-8) as shown on the shortcut menu from top-left to bottom-right.
· Format—Format: 0-Decimal, 1-Scientific, 2-Engineering, 3-Binary, 4-Octal, 5-Hexadecimal, 6-Relative Time, 7-Time and Date, 8-SI, and 9-Custom.
· Precision—Number of digits after the decimal point.
· Minimum—Minimum value of scale.
· Maximum—Maximum value of scale.
· MapMode—Scale mapping mode: 0-Linear, 1-Logarithmic..
· ScaleFit—Fit scale to data: 0-Do not autoscale, 1-Autoscale once now, 2-Autoscale.
· NameLblVisible—Indicates whether the axis label is visible.
· NameLblTxt—Text string of axis label.
· MajGrdColor—Color of the major grid on the scale (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
· MnrGrdColor—Color of the minor grid on the scale (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
For each plot
· Name—Name of the plot.
· Color—Color of the plot (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
· Interpolation—Interpolation of plot: 0-None, 1-Stepwise, 2-Linear, 3-Stepwise horizontal, 4-Stepwise horizontally centered, 5-Stepwise vertically centered.
· PointStyle—Point Style (0-16) as shown on the shortcut menu from top-left to bottom-right.
· LineStyle—LineStyle (0-4) as shown on the shortcut menu from top-left to bottom-right.
· Fill_PointColor—Color of the point and fills (hexadecimal number with the form RRGGBB).
· LineWidth—Width of the plot (0-5).
· Visible—Shows the plot.
Window appearance and location modification
When closing the window the Confirmation dialog box appears.
Modifications detected
Graph attributes modification detected are listed.
Window options
· Show Window—Window activation option.
- Manually—The window is updated in background. A ShowWindow step is needed to let the window appear.
- Automatically—The window appears first time executing the PlotData step.
· Close Window—Window activation option.
- Manually—The window remains opened. A CloseWindow step is needed to let the window disappear.
- When execution is released—The window is closed when the execution is released (Report window is closed).
- When execution is ened—The window is closed when the execution ends.
· AutoTitle—If enabled, the window title will be determined by the linked step name.
· Title—Text of window title if AutoTitle is disabled.
Window additional properties
The window properties will be saved into Step.WindowParams:
· Bounds—The four elements are the top, left, bottom, and right values of the interior portion of the front panel, not including the scroll bars, title bar, menu bar, and toolbar.