Graph operations

• Activate
• Copy
• Swap
• Kill
• Focus
• Show
• Set graph type
• Arrange
• Overlay
• Invert/flip axes
• Image

Activate

Make a graph eligible for receiving the graph focus and other operations. Select the graph to activate and press Accept.

Copy

Copy a graph to another graph.

Select the graph to copy from and the graph to copy to and press Accept.

Note: Copying a graph will automatically conceal one of the graphs as they will both have the same viewport settings. Some adjustments in the viewport settings of either or both graphs will be required for each graph to be displayed in a non-overlapping manner.

Swap

Exchange two graphs.

Select the first graph then the second and press Accept to exchange the contents of the two graphs. This can be used to adjust the order in which graphs are drawn, as graphs are drawn in numerical order starting with graph 0.

Kill

Make a graph inactive and free all storage associated with sets. Select the graph to kill and press Accept.

Focus

Set the graph focus, the focus policy and toggle the display of focus markers. Select the graph to have the focus, the focus policy, and the toggle for the focus markers and press Accept.

Note: Most operations in xmgr act on the current graph. Not noticing which graph has the current focus can be a source of frustration when working with xmgr - if you plan to work extensively with a particular graph, it might be useful to set the focus policy to Set to fix xmgr's notion of the current graph.

Show

Toggle the display of a one or more graphs.

Select which graph or graphs to show, then press Accept. The default is to show all active graphs.

This item can relieve some of the drudgery when working with multiple graphs, especially when some of the graphs contain large data sets.

Set graph type

Set the current graph type to XY, log-linear, linear-log, log-log, bar or stacked bar. Select the graph type, and press Accept.

Note: As of this writing, very little is done to ensure that the data are acceptable for log plots.

Arrange graphs

Place several graphs in a non-overlapping manner.

Select the number of rows and the number of columns, the packing method, the vertical and horizontal spacing between graphs in viewport coordinates, the start of the first graph in viewport coordinates, and how wide and how tall each graph should be. Graphs are laid out in column major order starting from the lower left. So, given 3 columns and 2 rows the graphs will be laid out as follows:

 1   3   5

 0   2   4

 2   5   8

 1   4   7

 0   3   6

Note that graphs are numbered from 0.

The packing selection packs the graphs vertically, horizontally or both. Use this item when there are several graphs with the same X or Y axis scaling so graphs on the outside of the packing arrangement provide the tick and axis labelling for all graphs in that row or column. In the 3x3 example above,selecting packing `both', graphs 3, 6 will have X-axis tick labels, and graphs 1, 2 will have Y-axis tick labels. Graphs 4, 5, 7, 8 will have neither X or Y axis tick labels, while graph 0 will have both.

Overlay

Overlay one graph onto another. This can be used to plot sets of different scale in what will appear to be the same graph.

Invert/flip axes

Reverse the direction of the X or Y axes or exchange the X and Y axes.

Image

Read and place an X window dump file on the drawing area. At the present time, only one image per session is allowed.