Display and output options
Formatting the chart area
When a state is added various defaults for chart presentation are used depending on its Modgen state type. At present, five chart types are permitted:
| Line | Level | Horizontal Bar | Point |
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BioBrowser recognizes the following Modgen state types and plots them by default according to their state type:
| State Type | Default Chart Type |
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| Integer | Level |
| Long | Level |
| Floating Point | Line |
| Double | Line |
| Time | Line |
| Logical | Horizontal Bar |
| Classification | Event |
| Range | Level |
The Line style draws one line between 2 adjacent points, whereas the Level style draws two lines (a vertical then a horizontal) between 2 points. The Horizontal Bar, although most appropriate for logical, classification and range type of Modgen states can be used on all states. For continuous states such as float or double, the horizontal bar uses colour interpolation from a start and end colour defined by the user. No legend is available for Horizontal Bar.
The default colour for Line, Level and Point plots is blue. The default colours for Horizontal Bar are white and gray. You can control the line thickness, band width and point size for the biography but not at the level of a single state. At present, these settings are global to the biography window. All such settings are saved with the biography.
Double-click on a chart within a biography, or right click on it and select State Properties from the pop-up menu, to re-format it for chart type and colour. A format string for the Y-Axis labels where appropriate can be changed at this time as well. The following dialog box is used to set or adjust these properties:
If the chart type selected is Horizontal Bar a second colour will be presented for selection. For logical states, these will be the False and True colours. For all other states types these will be used as a start colour and end colour in a colour interpolation process.
Setting and saving display options
Use the Format menu commands to change display options for the active biography window. The View menu, which includes the ToolBar and Status Bar display options, are application global.
The Tools/Options menu can be used to set and save session defaults and display default options for new biographies. The Options dialog box consists of three tabs: General, Chart Defaults and Axes Defaults. The General options will take effect immediately, whereas the two Default tabs are used only with new biography creation. The OK button will save these defaults to your application ini file.
The General tab below sets and saves session defaults used at application startup. To change them during the session, use the View and Tools menus.
The chart defaults used for new biography creation consists of the following display options. To change these options for an already open biography, use the Format menu.
Axes defaults for new biography creation are set and saved within the third options tab. Axes properties for an open biography can be set by double clicking the axes area of the chart window or by using the Axes Properties command from the Format menu.
Note that all display options and axes properties currently in effect for the open biography are saved with the biography file.
Sending a biography to the printer or clipboard
To print a biography, use File/Print or the Print button on the toolbar.
The printed biographies are sized to fit the page while maintaining their aspect ratio. The orientation used will depend on the aspect ratio of the biography window being printed, i.e., if the window is wider than tall, landscape will be used.
To send a biography to the clipboard, use Edit/Copy, Ctrl-C or the Toolbar copy button
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