YYYY Graph Suggestion

[jsc]

I know you just have nothing to do, so I thought I'd make a couple of suggestions while I should be doing something else! This would make for a little more seamless Excel transition. These may have come up before, but I may be asking a little differently:

How about a "YYYY" graph, where there is no defined X and all series are plotted against a 0-nnn or 1-nnn even interval? This would handle the Excel "Line Graph" format. You already have to size an array to handle points, so that could be the starting point. You already have an "Operate on X" in place, so the user can configure the x-axis to be whatever units are needed after importing. First row would be curve label if detected as text by DPlot. Datalogger input could benefit from this, as many times a datalogger export assumes the x values on a constant data collection rate. Why do this in DPlot? Because DPlot makes it so easy to turn on and off curves and to zoom in and scroll the plot. This should work from DDE as well as opening a file too large to import into Excel.

[DPlotAdmin]

Jon,
I'll add a YYY function to the Add-In. For reading files, though, you're already there. If you select "Multiple columns (2D) e.g. CSV files", then on the Open dialog check the "Pick columns to plot" box, on the next screen enter 0 for "Use column _ for X axis".

[jsc]

Boy am I embarrassed! Never thought you could change the x-axis column to 0. I've been processing the files through a basic program that I wrote to put the time function in as the first column. Well, guess it made me brush up on a little programming!

Yes, I'd like to see the add-in function for YYY. Thanks!

Jon

[DPlotAdmin]

No reason to be embarrassed... it's in the Help file, but of course nobody ever reads that

I'll add a note to that dialog explaining what 0 does.