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The Window Menu provides options to manage the graphics and text windows displayed by Xtremes. The following options are available:

Change Coordinates
Restore Coordinates
Edit Contents
Clear Window
Export Picture
Tile Vertically
Tile Horizontally
Cascade
Arrange Icons
Close all Windows


The Help Menu provides direct access to some topics of the help system. The following options are available:

Index
Help on Help
About Xtremes



Change Coordinates

The option Change Coordinates is used to change the coordinate system and the distance between ticks and markers on the axes. The actual dialog box is different for univariate and multivariate plots.

Change Coordinates (univariate)

A new coordinate system is defined by entering values for from and to for the x-axis and the y-axis. Note that you can change the coordinates visually by activating the Coordinate Changing Mouse Mode in the toolbar.
The previous coordinate system is saved; it can be restored by executing Restore Coordinates.
Select the option Display Frame to display the coordinate system on a rectangle around the plot area. The size of the frame is determined by executing Frame Size.
The number and the spacing of the ticks and markers displayed along the axes is selected automatically. You can provide your own values if you select the option User defined markers.

Change Coordinates (multivariate)

A new coordinate system is defined by entering values for from and to for the three axes.
Four options are available for plotting the coordinate system:
Box
A box is displayed around the actual plot.
Grid
A grid is displayed in the x-y-plane. The size of the grid is defined using the Ticks field.
Axis
The coordinate axes are displayed within the plot.
Only Plot
No coordinate system is displayed.
Labels for the axes are defined within the Label fields. Select the option z-axis locked to fix the z-axis when the plot is rotated using the Coordinate Changing Mouse Mode within the
toolbar.
The number and the spacing of the ticks and markers displayed along the axes is selected automatically. You can provide your own values if you select the option User defined markers.

Restore Coordinates

The coordinate system is restored to the settings before the last change. Xtremes stores all changes of a coordinate system, so you can return to the default size by executing the option repeatedly.

Edit Contents

This option gives a list of all curves in the active window. Use this function to change colors and line styles of plotted curves, or to remove curves from the active graphics window. One can also change parameters of displayed curves. The following options are provided:
Save Points
Save supporting points of the selected curve to a file.
Options
Options are available for either curves (like e.g. distribution functions) or histograms.
Choose color and line style of the selected curve by marking the corresponding radio button. Select also the length of the line and the gap when choosing a dotted, dashed or dashed-dotted line. Specify the number of supporting points the curve shall consist of and the line thickness by entering the values in the pertaining edit fields. One can also select a certain plot mode.
For histograms, one can select colors, histogram style and fill style as well as total size and position by selecting the corresponding radio buttons.
Parameters
Change paramaters for current curve by moving the scrollbars.
Delete
Delete the selected curve from the active window.

Clear Window

Deletes all objects from the active window.

Export Picture

The Export Picture menu provides options to export a graphics window. The following options are available:

Copy to Clipboard

The contents of the active graphics window are copied to the Windows clipboard in the standard bitmap format. One can select the width and height of the generated bitmap. Use this option if you want to insert the exported pictures into painting programs or word processors.
For best results, it may be preferable to produce postscript files. This is achieved by installing a postscript printer driver and printing to a file. See Demo A.2. in Statistical Analysis for details.

Create EPS File

The content of the active window can be exported using the Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) format. Select the size of the actual plot area and the frame size for coordinates and labels.
The Preview option displays the picture with the specified sizes on the screen.
The EPS format is recommended for pictures which are included in a LaTeX document. Several packages are available for that purpose. We show in which manner a test.eps file is inserted in a LaTeX document using the epsf package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{epsf}
\begin{document}

...
\epsfxsize=72mm \epsfbox{test.eps}
...
\end{document}

Hereby the loaded illustration is scaled to a horizontal size of 72mm (likewise, take 7.2cm). If the preparations are done with the Metric Frame Size facility, then the standard scaling should be equal to the plotarea + frame width.

Printer Setup

This command displays the system Printer Setup dialog box where you select which printer you want to use for printing. You can also control options of the printer like paper sizes from the dialog box.

Print

The contents of the active window are printed on the selected printer (see Printer Setup).
One can select the size of the actual plot area as well as provide a frame for coordinates and labels. See Demo A.1. in Statistical Analysis for an example.

Tile Vertically

Choose Tile Vertically to tile vertically your open windows.
This option arranges the windows side-by-side so they cover the entire desktop without overlapping one another.

Tile Horizontally

Choose Tile Horizontally to tile horizontally your open windows.
This option arranges the windows above each other so they cover the entire desktop without overlapping one another.

Cascade

Choose Cascade to stack all open windows.
This option overlaps open windows so each is the same size as all others and only part of each underlying window is visible.

Arrange Icons

This command rearranges your icons on the frame window. The rearranged icons are evenly spaced, beginning at the lower left corner of the frame window.
This command is useful when you resize your frame window when it has minimized windows.

Close all Windows

This command closes all open windows.
If an editor window contains unsaved data, Xtremes will ask you before closing the window.


Index

Executing the Index option, one gets the index of the Xtremes Online-Help system.

Help on Help

The Help on Help option provides a description of the Windows Help System.

About Xtremes

The About Xtremes option displays the copyright message and the Xtremes logo, i.e. the animated waves.

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Xtremes Group · updated Jun 21, 2005