The K Desktop Environment

5.16. Autoplot settings

The dialog Autoplot settings is used to perform the settings for automatic scaling of data files loaded by command line parameters, file menu, or by drag and drop.

In the group Axis mode one can choose between only a frame around the data window or additional tick marks on the left and lower sides of the frame or a grid. tick marks and grid may be labeled with numeric values.

In the group Window position and size of the data window may be set.

In the group Labels text for the axis labels and a heading may be entered. Text with special characters is entered most conveniently in the dialog Edit text which shows up when using the buttons right to the entry fields. By checking = path the path of the data files is used as the heading label.

In the group Data the file columns for abscissa and ordinate values may be chosen by x column and y column. 0 corresponds to the first column. Logarithmic scaling can be selected individually by checking log. When Error bar is checked, the column chosen in Error column is used for displaying error bars. Data may be presented by markers (Symbol <= 0) or lines (Symbol > 0). Most conveniently this is selected in the dialog Lines and Markers, opened by the button right to the spin box, which shows the actual line or marker. When Normalization is checked, powers of ten are evaluated to be multiplied with the numeric data values in case of huge or tiny numbers. If not equal to 1, these normalization factors are included in the axis labels.

When Autofit is checked, an automatic parameter fit will be performed after loading the data file, corresponding to the settings performed in the Autofit settings dialog.

The dialog may be canceled without saving by use of the button Cancel. By using Apply changes are saved without closing the dialog. With OK changes are saved and the dialog is closed.