Campbell Scientific ID-2000W Software - Manual (Page 41)

SECTION 3. PLOT TEMPLATE VIEW
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3.4 COPY PLOT
It is simple to insert an ID-2000 plot into another
Windows application. Once you have the plot
created click the “Copy” toolbar button or select
the Edit - Copy menu item. This places a copy
of the current plot on the Windows clipboard.
Then just “paste” it into whatever application
you desire.
“Copy” toolbar button
NOTE: If you have the color map feature
enabled you may find that the colors are
fewer or different when you paste the plot
into other applications. This is common if
your display is capable of 256 colors but the
application only uses 16 colors. Should you
find this condition to exist you can disable
the color map feature in the Preferences
dialog box, recreate the plot, and then copy
it to the clipboard.
3.5 EXPORT PLOT
In addition to copying the current plot to the
clipboard you can export the current plot to a
device independent bitmap file (.BMP). Once
your plot has been created select the File -
Export menu item which allows you to enter the
file name you wish to save the plot under.
3.6 STATISTICS
ID-2000 can provide quick access to plotted
data statistics. There are three methods of
accessing these statistics:
•
Click the statistics toolbar button:
•
Select the View - Statistics menu item
•
Click inside one of the graphs using the
right mouse button
The statistical information will be displayed in ID-
2000’s TextPad utility as shown in Figure 3-10.
The statistics displayed are only for the data
that is actually plotted. If you have zoomed in
on a section of data or specified a Time-Start
and Time-Stop that resulted in only part of the
data being plotted then the statistics will not be
for the entire length of the file.
There are four basic statistics calculated for
each plotted parameter including the X-axis
parameter. These are:
•
MIN - The minimum data point that was
plotted
•
MAX - The maximum data point that was
plotted
•
AVG - The average of all data points plotted
•
SUM - The “area under the curve” for all
data points plotted
If you access the Data Statistics by clicking the
right mouse button inside a graph AND the
graph has “Time”, “Scan_Number”, or
“Reference Time” as the X-axis parameter you
will find additional statistical information. This
information consists of the data values for ALL
parameters (regardless of whether or not they
are plotted) that correspond to the point where
you clicked the mouse. This is makes it very
easy to check values of multiple parameters at
any given time or point in the file without having
to plot each one.
The statistical information is stored in a
temporary file named IDSTATS.TXT which is
automatically loaded into the TextPad utility.
This file will automatically be deleted when you
have completed viewing the statistics unless
you have disabled this feature. The enabling or
disabling of the automatic deletion of the
statistics file is done via the General
Preferences dialog box. (See the section on
Preferences for more information.)