The Status popup displays useful information about the state of
sets, regions, and graphs. In addition to this, several useful operations
are provided to manipulate sets and graphs.
At the bottom of the popup are the controls for displaying what
appears in the top portion of the popup. Directly this above is a panel that
provides operations on the objects displayed in the scrolled region.
Staring with the bottom panel, from left to right, the selections are:
- Close
- Close the Status popup.
- Update
- Freshenup the status display.
- Write
- Write the contents of the status display to the Results popup, from
there, the information provided by Status can be written to disk.
- Page+
- Page forward through the status display. There is a limit as to how
many sets can be displayed in the Status popup at one time. By
default, the maximum is 30. When the number of sets is less than 30, this
button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that
are not shown in the display.
- Page-
- Page backward through the status display. There is a limit as to how
many sets can be displayed in the Status display region at one time. By
default, the maximum is 30. When the number of sets is less than 30, this
button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that
are not shown in the display.
- Home
- Go to the first page of the status display.
- End
- Go to the last page of the status display.
- Display
- An option menu used to select the object types to view, sets, graphs,
or regions. The operations panel directly above will change as the object
type in this item is changed.
Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the
operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display.
There is a status line provided that will give a bit of help on what
actions to take to perform a given operation. Generally, the cursor will
change to reflect the nature of the operation.
When the selection for Display is Sets, the operations provided
are:
- Kill
- Clicking on Kill activates the pointer such that clicking on a
set number shown in the display of the Status popup kills the set.
After a set is Kill'ed, the point remains hot, the Kill
operation can be performed agin, until the Cancel button
is pressed.
- Deact
- Clicking on Deact followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will deactivate the set (deactivation merely hides the
set, the data is not released). The function can be useful when there are
lots of sets being drawn, and the interest is in a subset of the sets
being display in the drawing area.
- React
- Clicking on React followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will reactivate the set if it has previously be deactivated.
- Copy
- Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will select the set to copy from. Click again on another set
number to perform the copy. One trick that can be performed here is that
this operation can be used to copy sets from one graph to another by
changing the current graph. The current graph must be changed by either
clicking on the graph to receive the focus on the drawing area, or using
Graph/Graph operations.
- Move
- Clicking on Move followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will select the set to move. Click again on another set
number to perform the move. One trick that can be performed here is that
this operation can be used to move sets from one graph to another by
changing the current graph. The current graph must be changed by either
clicking on the graph to receive the focus on the drawing area, or using
Graph/Graph operations.
- Auto
- Clicking on Auto followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will select autoscale the graph axes such that the set in
its entirety is displayed in the drawing area.
- Reverse
- Clicking on Reverse followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will select reverse the order of the points in the set.
- Reverse
- Clicking on Join followed by clicking on a set number in the
scrolled window will select the set to join to, Click again on another
set number to complete the join.
- Pack
- Clicking on Pack renumbers sets such that there are no gaps in the
set structure. If the active sets are 0, 3, 5, following the pack operation,
the sets will be numbered 0, 1, 2.
- Cancel
- Clicking on Cancel cancels any of the operations above that
require more than a single set to function (Copy, Move, Join). Also,
most of the operations stay in effect until Cancel is pressed.
When the selection for Display is Graphs, the operations provided
are:
Activate
Clicking on Activate then clicking on a graph number activates the
graph.
Copy
Clicking on Copy then clicking on a graph number selects the
graph to copy from. Clicking on another graph selects the graph to copy
to.
Move
Clicking on Move then clicking on a graph number selects the
graph to move from. Clicking on another graph selects the graph to move
to.
Swap
To swap 2 graphs, click on Swap then click on a graph number
to select the first graph, then click again on the second graph to perform
the swap.
Hide
To hide a graph, click on Hide then click on a graph number.
Show
To undo the effect of Hide, click on Show then click on a
graph number.
Focus
To set the graph focus (the graph with the focus is referred to as
the current graph), click on Focus then click on a graph number.
Kill
To kill a graph, click on Kill then click on a graph number.
Cancel
Cancel operations that require 2 selections and take the pointer
out of whatever operation was previously selected.
When the selection for Display is Regions, no operations are
provided at the present time.