Point Labels - copying data values

[jsc]

David,

There doesn't seem to be any way to copy the value of a point label defined by $X, $Y and the like to the clipboard.

Could this be added?

One at a time would be great - something in the right-click menu, "Copy values".

An enhancement might be to have a way to copy all point labels associated with a particular curve to a text file. Would probably need the label number, and the label information. I'd assume that a text editor or Excel could operate on the exported information so that the real numbers could be extracted if something like, "$X, $Y" was specified for the label.

Thanks in advance.

Jon

[DPlotAdmin]

There doesn't seem to be any way to copy the value of a point label defined by $X, $Y and the like to the clipboard.

Could this be added?

One at a time would be great - something in the right-click menu, "Copy values".

Done, and will be included in the next release. It has some shortcomings, though. The label text is copied to the Clipboard as simple ASCII text. So for Powers of 10 and Engineering number formats you'll get the formatting codes that are only meaningful inside DPlot, e.g. 5.42x10{\u3}. Similarly Pi Multiples and Pi Fractions number formats will include a {\sp}. For the former I could probably make a ^ substitution for the superscript. But for pi there is no acceptable plain text alternative. Same applies if you manually enter any of the special formatting codes DPlot can use (bold, underlined, symbol characters, etc.)

The only way I can see to do this properly is for DPlot to render the label as RTF, but to me that seems like overkill.

[jsc]

Thanks - it will be fine for 99% of my needs.

[DPlotAdmin]

Nevermind on the previous; I didn't think this through clearly. I think in almost every case a user would want the actual number(s), not DPlot's idea of what the numbers are or should look like. So now it is switching to the default number format for this operation. Works fine.

[DPlotAdmin]

Jon,
Done. You can get 2.2.8.4 with Help>Check for Updates, or wait for the update notice being sent to the mailing list as I write this.

If I remember correctly, the changes to reference line labels were also your suggestion. Thanks for all of your input.

[jsc]

David,

Thanks for the quick response and regular updates - you know you spoil us!

[DPlotAdmin]

...you know you spoil us!

Not really. But as long as you believe that, I'm good

Happy Easter.