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:

• Graphic entity selection

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

  To select an entity, you need just click on it.

  

• Copy, Cut, Paste

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

  To copy/cut an entity: select it, right click copy/cut.

  

• Copy axes style

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

  To copy the axes style: right click in the figure and "copy style".

  

• Copy to clipboard

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

  To copy the figure to the clipboard: right click, copy to clipboard

  

• Delete

  Deletes the selected entity.

  To delete an entity: select it, right click, delete

  

• Hide, Unhide

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

  To hide an entity: select it, right click, hide.

  

• Undo / Redo

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

  To undo/redo an action, right click, "undo"/redo.

• 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.

  

• Clear

  Clears the figure.

  Clear action isn't added to the undo/redo history.

  

• Open GED

  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.