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- GRAPH FACILITIES
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- With the graph displayed clicking MENU over it will bring up the
- 'Graph' menu allowing you to add further accounts, save the graph, or
- to print it out as a report. Archive files (or indeed any accounts
- file) can also be added by dragging the file over the graph itself.
- A measuring tool can be used to assess a variety of parameters on the
- graph itself.
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- ADD
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- To add an account just select it from the menu or drag any account's
- file icon over the graph, the axes will be rescaled if required and
- the new graph plotted together with the existing one(s). A maximum of
- 8 accounts in total can be plotted on one graph. If a ninth is added
- then a new graph replaces the old one.
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- PRINT
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- To print the graph, select 'Print' from the menu, the graph will be
- printed through the selected RiscOS printer driver as on the screen
- with the addition of a border and a title block showing the period
- that the graph covers. The colours will be replaced by grey shades.
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- SAVESPRITE and SAVEDRAW
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- Selecting 'Savesprite' or 'Savedraw' will open a 'Savebox' dialogue
- box allowing you to save the graph as a Sprite or Drawfile wherever
- you wish. A default filename (Sgraph1 or Dgraph1) increments by 1 each
- time a graph is saved. The 'Savedraw' option will save the graph as a
- drawfile in the same style as the 'Print' option. If the graph is a
- linegraph then each account line will be given a different 'dash'
- style. This drawfile can be exported, printed or modified in !Draw.
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- MEASURING TOOL
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- Clicking select over the area of the graph and then dragging will plot
- a straight dashed line in the same manner as Draw. At the same time an
- information box will appear in the bottom right corner of the graph
- showing the percentage growth rate that this line represents on the
- graph as a simple interest rate per year. Terminating the drag draws
- this line as a solid line on the graph. Clicking over the 'percent'
- icon will change its text and the value displayed below it, cycling
- through a set of data in the order 'compound' - this shows the
- equivalent yearly compound growth rate;'start£' - this shows the value
- at the start of the line (it might not be in £);'stop£' - this shows
- the final line value;'period' - this shows the period in days of the
- line.
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- To move the plotted line just click and drag again and a new line will
- be plotted. To move just the end of the line click close to the 'blob'
- at the stop end of the line and drag it, it will move and the start
- will remain where it was.
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- When the start of the line is near to either axis it is assumed to be
- on that axis. Starts to the left of the vertical axis are moved to the
- vertical axis. When 'relative' has been selected then start clicks
- close to '1' on the vertical axis are assumed to be 1 and move onto
- this line.
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- The values of 'percent' and 'compound' depend on the starting value
- chosen, if this is zero then no rate of growth will increase it and
- although a line can be drawn, 'zero' will be shown. Similarly vertical
- lines will show 'infinite' and steep lines will show 'big' (greater
- than 1000% simple rate)
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