Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature Request
Thank you, Benjamin. Yes, I found the crosshair feature and it is indeed sort of what I'm after. Now, if that could be implemented as part of an exportable plot with the ability to format and place the readout arbitrarily, oh and maybe allow several of them in different colors, I'd be delighted. :-) Gerrit On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Benjamin K. Stuhl bk...@cornell.edu wrote: On 3/5/2014 9:57 PM, Gerrit Barrere wrote: I'm new on this subscriber list and don't know the etiquette -- I hope this is the right way to start a discussion about a potential new feature. Please let me know if this should be done differently. Veusz is a fabulous program. It's extremely powerful and aesthetically beautiful (but you all already know that). I have written a program to configure the raw data output from my HP impedance analyzer into a form Veusz will import, including data and labels, so I can get beautiful plots of the instrument output to put into my lab reports (example attached). Everything is working perfectly except for one thing. I would like to see a widget for a data trace marker as an element of a Veusz xy graph. This would be a line or marker which can be slid back and forth to read out the data at the line position. The readout could be placed anywhere on the graph. I'm attaching a screen shot of an application which has this type of function. The vertical line can be dragged back and forth and the horizontal line follows the data. The dialog box shows the X and Y data. Hi Gerrit, Welcome to the list, and this is certainly the appropriate place to ask questions or make feature requests. In this particular case, it may be that Veusz actually already has part of the feature you are looking for: the crosshair icon on the toolbar (in between the mouse arrow and the zoom-in icon in the default layout) is a point picker tool. It reads back the index and value of the selected point in the status bar and supports navigation using the left/right arrow keys to scan along one curve and up/down to jump between curves. What it does not do -- but certainly could be added as a widget -- is give some permanent display on the plot canvas. For now, you'd need to draw the crosshairs yourself using a pair of lines and a text label if you want to highlight a specific point in your lab report. Regards, -- BKS ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] feature request
On 03/03/14 16:32, Tobias Heitmann wrote: If anybody else is interested in this, could you think of anything like a cloned view on certain widgets, e.g. a copy with inherited (frozen) properties by default? For maximum flexibility, properties to be edited could be 'unfrozen' later, if needed. Hi Tobias - it seems like a good idea. Some thought would be required on how to do this in terms of UI and internally. By the way, you can do what you're doing in some cases by 1. After changing a setting, change the default for that setting so that other widgets inherit that. 2. Select multiple widgets, so you can edit their settings simultaneously. I've thought about user-definable subwidget types, which would be widget types with different (user definable) defaults. This could be one approach. Alternatively, as you say a clone would be a possible idea, though you'd need some UI to propagate settings back to the original. Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature Request
On 3/5/2014 9:57 PM, Gerrit Barrere wrote: I'm new on this subscriber list and don't know the etiquette -- I hope this is the right way to start a discussion about a potential new feature. Please let me know if this should be done differently. Veusz is a fabulous program. It's extremely powerful and aesthetically beautiful (but you all already know that). I have written a program to configure the raw data output from my HP impedance analyzer into a form Veusz will import, including data and labels, so I can get beautiful plots of the instrument output to put into my lab reports (example attached). Everything is working perfectly except for one thing. I would like to see a widget for a data trace marker as an element of a Veusz xy graph. This would be a line or marker which can be slid back and forth to read out the data at the line position. The readout could be placed anywhere on the graph. I'm attaching a screen shot of an application which has this type of function. The vertical line can be dragged back and forth and the horizontal line follows the data. The dialog box shows the X and Y data. Hi Gerrit, Welcome to the list, and this is certainly the appropriate place to ask questions or make feature requests. In this particular case, it may be that Veusz actually already has part of the feature you are looking for: the crosshair icon on the toolbar (in between the mouse arrow and the zoom-in icon in the default layout) is a point picker tool. It reads back the index and value of the selected point in the status bar and supports navigation using the left/right arrow keys to scan along one curve and up/down to jump between curves. What it does not do -- but certainly could be added as a widget -- is give some permanent display on the plot canvas. For now, you'd need to draw the crosshairs yourself using a pair of lines and a text label if you want to highlight a specific point in your lab report. Regards, -- BKS ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature request: Graph Coloring and Renaming
Hi Simon On 09/10/13 17:54, Simon Kleinknecht wrote: 1. Graph coloring: It would be nice to have a scroll-down box with all the colors in the main section of the Formatting - Veusz window of a graph which applies the selected color to all graph properties (plot line, marker border fill). Something like this could be useful. I'll have to think how to implement this. 2. Often I have a lot of pages in one Veusz file to keep track of experimental setup modifications. As there is no place to write down notes/comments for a page (could be also a nice-to-have feature) I have to give the pages meaningful names. I could add a notes filed to pages / graphs - would this be useful? Unfortunately, when I want to edit the filed, Veusz never behaves like any ordinary OS (marking the current name for editing) but gives me an empty field and I have to retype the entire name. Don't know if this is hard to change, if not I would be grateful. This has annoyed me, too. I thought it was general Qt behaviour. Fortunately, I've found why the name gets blanked and have fixed this for the next release. It also allows values to be edited in the dataset editor and browser. https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz/commit/1a560fda880779e3367ac9315887e04e64387d57 Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature request: Graph Coloring and Renaming
Hi Jeremy, thanks for the fast and very positive reply regarding my requests/comments! Regarding your answer on feature request 2: Yes, indeed that would be useful. A box field which allows for multiple lines would be great to efficiently store information. Looking forward to the upcoming release! Simon On 2013-10-10 08:38 PM, Jeremy Sanders wrote: Hi Simon On 09/10/13 17:54, Simon Kleinknecht wrote: 1. Graph coloring: It would be nice to have a scroll-down box with all the colors in the main section of the Formatting - Veusz window of a graph which applies the selected color to all graph properties (plot line, marker border fill). Something like this could be useful. I'll have to think how to implement this. 2. Often I have a lot of pages in one Veusz file to keep track of experimental setup modifications. As there is no place to write down notes/comments for a page (could be also a nice-to-have feature) I have to give the pages meaningful names. I could add a notes filed to pages / graphs - would this be useful? Unfortunately, when I want to edit the filed, Veusz never behaves like any ordinary OS (marking the current name for editing) but gives me an empty field and I have to retype the entire name. Don't know if this is hard to change, if not I would be grateful. This has annoyed me, too. I thought it was general Qt behaviour. Fortunately, I've found why the name gets blanked and have fixed this for the next release. It also allows values to be edited in the dataset editor and browser. https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz/commit/1a560fda880779e3367ac9315887e04e64387d57 Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Jeremy -- ___ Simon Kleinknecht, Dipl.-Ing. Umweltschutztechnik Institut fuer Wasser- und Umweltsystemmodellierung Versuchseinrichtung zur Grundwasser- und Altlastensanierung (VEGAS) Universitaet Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 61 D-70569 Stuttgart Tel: (0049) 711/685-68201 e-mail: simon.kleinknecht(at)iws.uni-stuttgart.de www: http://www.vegas.uni-stuttgart.de ___ Diese E-Mail könnte vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen enthalten. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail sind nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature Request: Fill/Border box behind text labels
On 10/06/12 21:22, Scott Maddox wrote: Hello, I don't know if anyone else thinks this is a good idea, but I thought it would be nice for text labels to have boxes associated with them with fill and border options, similar to legends. Currently, I just add a box for each label, but it would be nice to not have to do this. This would be a good idea. I'll add it to my todo list, but I probably won't be able to do it for the 1.16 release. Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] Feature request re date axes
Paul Troughton wrote: I've thought of one improvement which would be very handy: an option to put date labels between the ticks, rather than lined up with them. This looks like a good idea. I'll add it to my todo list. Thanks Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
Re: [Veusz-discuss] feature request: EMF export
Johan Asplund wrote: Some journals want to have the figures embedded in a word-document. Therefore I would like to be able to export to a vector-format that can be inserted into word. Interesting. Unfortunately it's not trivial as Qt doesn't have a EMF export plugin. I don't see that anyone else has implemented one. I see the specs for EMF are available, so it would be possible to write a plugin to QPaintEngine to do this, but it may not trivial to get right. It seems possible to write a QPaintEngine in python, so it may not be too much work with the specs and the python, though there does seem to be an issue in my test code. I see there are postscript to EMF converters which can be used in the meantime. Jeremy ___ Veusz-discuss mailing list Veusz-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
