Graphic Facilities

  This section describes the facilities of the graphics package in MIDAS. The package makes use of the Astronet Graphic Library (AGL)  , which has been accepted as the standard for maintenance and development of the MIDAS graphics software. An overview of the graphic commands currently available in MIDAS is presented.

• Introduction
• Graphic Devices
• General Commands
  • SET/GRAPHIC and SHOW/GRAPHIC
  • ASSIGN/GRAPHIC and COPY/GRAPHIC
• Plot Commands
  • Plotting and overplotting axes
  • PLOT and OVERPLOT commands for plotting data
  • Plotting text, symbols, and lines
• Graphic Cursor Commands
• Handling of Plotfiles
• Encapsulated PostScript Files
• Examples
• Command Summary