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- The shape of the cursor in DataThief changes according
- to the mode you are in. First of all is the normal arrow
- cursor. You will see it when you move the cursor to the
- menu bar or when a dialog is presented on the screen.
- Second is the crosshair cursor. This is the cursor which
- you see when you are expected to do something with a
- point on the plot you want to scan. The Crosshair cursor
- has different indicators in the upper right corner of the
- cross. These indicators are explained below:
- • X-: indicates you have to click on the
- lowest X coordinate of your plot.
- • X+: indicates you have to click on the
- highest X coordinate of your plot.
- • Y-: indicates you have to click on the
- lowest Y coordinate of your plot.
- • Y+: indicates you have to click on the
- highest Y coordinate of your plot.
- • D: indicates you are in manual data
- stealing mode. Click on a data point.
- • E: indiactes you are expected to click
- on an error point (only when error bars
- are selected).
- • T: indicates you are in autoTracing mode.
- Click on the beginning of the curve to start the
- auto trace.
- The last cursor you might see is the spinning beach
- ball. This one shows during time consuming operations
- like auto tracing or saving a file to disk. As long as
- the ball is spinning, the Mac is working for you.
- Sit back, relax, take a deep breath and think of
- something beautiful.
-