Copy, Paste and Save

If the user right-clicks on a figure, a popup menu appears with some actions. The possible actions depend on where the right-click is done

  • Outside the axes:

    • Copy Data Figure: copy all the data

    • Copy Picture: copy an image of the figure

  • Inside the axes, not on a line:

    • Copy Data Axes: copy only the data of this subplot

    • Copy Visible Data: copy only the data within the visible x-axis range (only meaningfull after zooming on a part of the data)

    • Paste Data: paste some column based data with one or more lines

    • Copy Picture

  • Inside the axes, on a line same as before with addition of:

    • Copy Line Data: copy only the data of the line

    • Copy Visible Line Data: copy only the data of the line for the visible x-axis range

Copy

It is possible to copy the data from a figure or axes to paste in another application. The data is tab seperated and column based. The data contains headers based on the labels in the figure.

It is also possible to copy the figure as an image, to be pasted in Word for instance. The image is based on the current size and definition.

If one clicks on a data point in a xy plot, a popup window will appear with the data of the nearest point. This data will be copied into the Clipboard.

paste:

4.00kn

[75, 5.82952]

0 <= x <= 180 (span=180):

  mean: 3.10973

  std: 2.06664

  maximum: 5.99077

  minimum: 1.5591e-07

The information showed in the pop-up is based on the x-y data. The mean and standard deviation are thus not relevant in this case. The mean and standard deviation are not computed using a wave spectrum.

Paste

Simple data can be pasted onto a figure for comparison. The data should be column based with one X axis first followed by one column per line. If only one point is pasted, a marker will be used, otherwise a continuous line will be created in the figure. This can be repeated as much as wanted.

Save

The save button allows to save the figure to a file. The figure is first rescaled to a given size and dpi. This can be chosen in the preferences.ini file in RAOViewer’s folder. The options are given as follows:

[SAVEFIG]

; List of parameters when saving the figures to a file

; options can be found here http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.savefig

dpi = 300

facecolor = w

edgecolor = w

transparent = True

size_inches = (5.71, 3.15)  ; Custom fixed value in inches, if you want to use the current window size, remove this option

Line style and marker

By Ctrl-clicking on a line in a xy plot, it is possible to change its appearance: color, line style, line width, marker, marker size, marker face color and marker edge color. The color “none” means no color, making thus the line, marker or edge disappear. The marker style and color is unfortunately not fully updated in the legend.

Figure Toolbar

The buttons in the toolbar under the figure allow to edit the figure:


  • go back to original view

  • go to previous view

  • go to next view

  • pan view (with Ctrl key: zoom)

  • zoom view

  • show cross

  • Edit

    • Grid toggle

    • Edit labels (title, x and y label)

    • Edit legend

    • Edit axis limits (x, y, z and number of contour levels)

    • Layout

  • Save the figure

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