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Hello, just wanted to know if it's possible to disable the prompt that appears when a user attempts to close a file created and modified via the dplot_command() interface from VBA. I am using dplot to show a graph that will will be saved very rarely. The ease of closing this transient plot without t...

One: it seems that the order I place the manualscale command within the command string affects the outcome. When the command [ManualScale(,0,,50)] is at the beginning, the extents are still set by the program, if it's at the end, the optional extents are used. I haven't pinpointed which command it n...

Hey, I've just tried to use the new optional extents feature of ManualScale. I am trying to specify y axis extents while leaving the x axis alone. Dplot seems to ignore the manual scale commands that leave some extents unassigned. I am using 2.0.1.1. Dplot obeys manual scale extents fine when they'r...

Hey, I noticed the updated revision. In order to access the new optional extents functionality from excel, will I have to install a new dplotlib.xla file?
Thanks,
Arthur

Sorry, didn't realize that editaddtox performs an addition operation. It looks like [XY(xval, yval)] is the way to go, but DPlot seems to not like the command. I successfully added the points to the arrays graphed, but is there any way to add data values once the plot has already been made? ie, arra...

Hey, just wanted to thank you again for your time. I came up with a workaround for the issue I was having with using dynamic & static extents on the same plot. I realized I could enable dynamic scaling for the whole graph, and use an invisible line to force dplot to always scale one axis to the ...

I don't want to bother you with this, but are you still thinking this will get worked in the end of this month?
Thanks
Arthur

Ok, sounds good.

Any idea when that will be released? Just want to know if I should kill myself writing scaling into my code, or just wait a couple days.
Thanks again,
Arthur

Is it possible to specify the y extents, but allow Dplot to scale the x extents?

Thanks!

Also, the axes at zero option doesn't seem to work. Are these related?

This is the command string I am feeding to Dplot... D.Version = DPLOT_DDE_VERSION D.DataFormat = DATA_XYXY D.MaxCurves = NumCurves D.MaxPoints = MaxRows - HasHeading D.NumCurves = NumCurves D.ScaleCode = SCALE_LOGX_LINEARY D.Title1 = "Geometric Distortion" D.Title2 = lensname D.XAxis = &qu...

Just wanted to thank you again for the copious help and support you've already given me. Unfortunately, I still have some questions. I am feeding dplot some manualscale info for a logarithmic x/linear y graph, but dplot ignores the scaling info. I can go in after the fact and specify the extents man...

Hey, I'm trying to restrict the legend to one entry/column. The box enclosing the legend resizes fine, but the legend entries remain unchanged. Any ideas what might be happening?
Arthur

Oh, I am running 1.9.9.9

I know the basics of hexadecimal (after having read a quick primer). I'm not sure how the hexadecimal can communicate both the option refererred to and the desired setting (on or off). Mind giving a quick explanation?
Thanks again,
Arthur

Ok, thanks for your help. It seems these commands are indeed the ones i needed. I just wanted to know why the general options can be set using hex, what was the reason for this? My ignorance of hexadecimal is probably to blame here (and below, read on...) Also, you said that the options cannot be ch...

I can't figure out how to turn off the "automatic scaling for 3d graphs" option programatically. Also, the save as... dimensions stay at whatever they were last set to. Is there a way to set the dimensions programatically. Thanks
Arthur

Don't know whether this is a bug or feature, but I suspect it's the former. The DPlot Help file says this for the command [RefLine(options, style, color, width, value|,"label"|)]: ....The optional label will be added to the plot legend if used. In my experience, Dplot makes a legend entry ...

Just realized my syntax in vb was wrong. duh Anyways, that fixed my problems.

Yeah, it is fairly important. As it turns out, though, the log base 2 scaling wouldn't actually work for my purposes. My x axis contains a series of common camera apertures. The common values for these fstops are sometimes fudged. ie f/5.6 is actually 5.657... A more intelligent logarithmic labeling...

Ok, it looks like some other option must have been conflicting, because it is working fine now, however, the custom x axis labels aren't appearing. hmmm

My plot works fine so long as I omit the color options from the command I give Dplot. My syntax seems to match the example in the help file (and your other posts relating to color). What is my problem? I'm emailing a picture of the error message to support@dplot.com Oh, if it helps I'm using VB and ...

Awesome, that works perfectly. Is there any way to selectively eliminate just one axis' grid lines, in this case the x axis? Not a huge problem, just wanted to know whether or not i need to use the reference line method for the y axis as well.
Thanks,
Arthur

Oh, another question. I read the command syntax and didn't find a way to access the text>x labels information programatically. Did I miss something, or is this a situation where I need to save it as a preference?
Thanks again,
Arthur

The jerry rigged example you gave me worked for my purposes wonderfully. I hadn't been aware of the method for assigning labels manually. My data is logarithmic (base 2), so I set that on the linear/log scaling. my problem is that now I have a funky grid. Not really sure why it looks like this, but ...

In regards to the z value clipping, I was thinking of something like displaying the clipped portion of the graph as a flat surface, perhaps as a different color. Not sure if this is possible, just a thought. Thanks very much for your help.
Arthur

Ah, so it was skipping the commands with the incorrect syntax. Gotcha. Just a couple other questions Is there any way to change DPlot's behaviour with clipped z values? And, is there any way to allow dplot to scale the z values automatically (while manually specifying the x & y scaling factors? ...

I've tried the following command:
[ContourScales(Xscale, Yscale, Zscale)]
But setting this to [ContourScales(1, 1, 1/2)]
Leaves the scale factors in contour options unchanged. Are there other commands that I'm missing?

Just wanted to say this is an awesome program. I'm just having a hard time figuring out how to set scaling factors programatically. The xy numbers for a 3d contour plot have a 3:2 ratio (or 1.5:1). When I graph these numbers it gives the xy plane a square appearance. I would rather preserve the aspe...