| Re: position plot in iplot [message #63231 is a reply to message #63148] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 09:03  |
pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007
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AndiBiffar@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 28 Okt., 13:45, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> AndiBif...@googlemail.com writes:
>>> i want to add annotations to an iplot on the right side of the plot. I
>>> have done the same thing with traditional plots. I �first created a
>>> window with a fixed size and afterwards positioned the plot and the
>>> annotations via xyouts.
>>
>>> However using iplots i dont know what would be the replacement for
>>> firstly initializing a window of a defined size and afterwards
>>> positioning the iplot within it.
>>
>> Well, let's just say you are not the *only* one who doesn't
>> understand iTools. It's my believe that they are inherently
>> incapable of being understood. But, that said, in my poking
>> around the farm the other day, I came upon another program
>> that I didn't know was there: IXYOUTS. This program is
>> suppose to be the XYOUTS program for iTools, allowing you
>> to add annotations to an iPlot. I say "suppose to be" because
>> I've never figured out iTools enough to use the damn things,
>> so I've never used the program. But I remember *thinking*
>> it worked. :-)
>>
>> � http://www.dfanning.com/programs/ixyouts.pro
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> Hi David,
>
> i totally agree with your opinion about itools. However since i am
> working on a GUI generating data fits i want the users using this GUI
> to be able to edit plots generated.
Edit the data? Your user must be politicians, not scientists....
Ciao,
Paolo
> As far as i know the only way to
> do this is using an iplot.
>
> My problem is not to position of the annotations, which of course is
> way easier with your ixyouts than with the idl standard syntax using
> idAnnotate.
>
> Still my problem is the positioning of the plot. In the case of using
> plot i would generate my output in the following way
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> window, xsize, ysize
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> plot, ... position=[0.1,0.2,0.5,0.9] ....
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> thereby i can move my plot more to the left of the window.
>
> What i would like to know now is how to generate a window in which i
> could either position the iplot or how to tell the iplot to be left
> aligned in the iplot window. So far my iplot is always centered and
> therefore i get a huge white space on the lef side if want to be able
> to add annotations on the right side for example.
>
> Is there an object above the iplot which i could maybe generate and
> position the iplot inside afterwards.
>
> Thx in advance
> Andi
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