Interactive Editor

Description

The interactive plot editor added new features to scilab, now the user can interact with the plot window and the graphic objects without using a single line of code.

The interactive plot editor provides the following features:

Editor menu:

• The user can select curves, surfaces and legends on the plot window.

• Selected entities can be copied/cutted and be pasted to others figures (except legends).

• The axes properties can be copied and pasted to ease formatting between figures.

• The figure can be copied to the system clipboard, and pasted to others programs (like Word).

• Deletes the selected entity.

• Enables the user to hide the selected entity and unhide all hidden entities.

• Almost any action done with the editor can be undone/ redone.

• Labels

  With a simply right click the user can insert labels in the axes, and doing a double click over a label text opens a dialog to edit its text.

  

• Legends

  With a simply right click the user can insert a legend to the selected curve or remove it, and doing a double click over a legend box opens a dialog to edit its text.

  

• Clears the figure.

• With a simply right click the user can open the ged with the properties from the selected/right clicked entity.

• Move objects

  To move objects: enable the data editor mode, select and drag an object.

  
  

• Graphically curve data editor

  To edit a curve data: enable the data editor mode, select an object, right click, edit curve data or double click over curve.

  

  To add a point: with the selected curve in edit mode, right click, "insert" or double click over the curve.

  To remove a point: with the selected curve in edit mode, right click, "remove".

  

  To move a point: with the selected curve in edit mode, click in the point and drag it.

  

See also

• Properties editor — Interactive edition of hierarchical properties of graphic objects
• ged — Scilab Graphic Editor
• graphics_entities — description of the graphics entities data structures
• set — set properties of some graphic objects or uimenus or uicontrol interactive components
• get — Gets the handle of a graphical or User Interface object, or the property's value of objects.