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- This file contains changes, hints and tips which didn't make it into the
- manual. Last updated 18/7/1993.
-
-
- POSSIBLE ADDRESS CHANGE
- The address for registrations may be changing from 1/1/1994. If you
- wish to register before 1/1/1994, use the current address:
-
- Dr Alan Baxter,
- Cambridge University Department of Pathology,
- Tennis Court Rd, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK.
-
- If you wish to register after 1/1/1994, either check if the UK
- address is current by email (agb16@phx.cam.ac.uk) or send the
- registration to the following address from which it will be
- forwarded:
-
- Dr Alan Baxter,
- 1610 Malvern Rd,
- Glen Iris, 3146,
- AUSTRALIA.
-
-
- *** Beta Testers please see section at end of file. ***
-
- WARNING!! PLT: BUG AND WORKAROUND...
- On receiving a write command, PLT: attempts to open the preferences
- printer. If no printer has been defined from within preferences, PLT:
- then mistakenly frees memory it has not requested resulting in a
- Software Error requester and an error number of #80000005. You MUST
- define a preferences printer before using the PLT: device, even if you
- are just using it for print previews.
-
-
- Undocumented Features and Changes.
-
- 1) If a point size of 0 is chosen in the CUSTOM PRINT WINDOW, multiplot
- will now print a point. Previously a point size of 0 did not print.
-
- 2) The Y axis legend text scales as if it were not printed sideways.
- This makes it easier for both axes to have text with a similar
- appearance.
-
- 3) Line thickness selections made within the CUSTOM PRINT WINDOW and the
- EDIT AXIS WINDOW and defined within the PRINT SETUP WINDOW are now used
- to set line widths in postscript output.
-
- 4) If you get a jagged saw-tooth appearance at the right hand edge of the
- Multiplot screen, it can be eliminated by: Quit Multiplot, open the
- Workbench preferences overscan editor, edit the text size, pull the right
- hand screen edge in from maximum a pixel or two, click on the Use button,
- save changes and then reopen Multiplot.
-
- 5) The Rexx directory contains a program called MPlotRexx which will send
- ARexx messages to Multiplot to assist in debugging ARexx macros which
- interact with Multiplot.
-
- 6) To access the ARexx macro facility, the Rexxmast program in the system
- drawer must be run before starting Multiplot.
-
- 7) The Rexx directory contains several macros which are both examples of
- correct usage of Multiplot's ARexx port and are also useful in their own
- right. These macros are described briefly below:
-
- Flipset.mpt Swaps x and Y values of a selected data set.
-
- Joinsets.mpt Merges two selected data sets.
-
- Readtable.mpt Loads tabulated Y values. To be run as a startup script.
-
- ScaleY.mpt Scales Y values and errors.
-
- ShiftY.mpt Transforms Y values.
-
- SortY.mpt Sorts points in selected data set on Y values.
-
- 8) A new startup option is available to set the PostScript font used in
- both encapsulated and printed postscript output. The keyword PSFONT must
- be followed by one of:
- Times-Roman
- Helvetica
- Helv-Narrow
- AvantGarde
- Bookman
- Palatino
- ZapfChancery
- Courier
-
- Example: PSFONT=Helvetica
-
- 9) A new startup option is available to set the PostScript page size
- used for printed postscript output. The keyword PSPAGE must be followed
- by either:
- A USA page size A
- or
- 4 Internation A4 page size
-
- Example: PSPAGE=4
-
- 10) Old file format files are now automatically converted to the new
- file format on opening. Note that some information is lost.
-
-
-
- CHANGES AND BUG FIXES
-
- Since version XLNf v1.05:
- * Multiplot no longer crashes if there is a right hand Y axis with a
- label, but the lowermost left hand Y axis does not have a label.
-
- Since version XLNf v1.04:
- * The problem of small values being rounded to 0 has been fixed better
- than the last time (!).
- * Mutilation of very small values on log axes has been fixed.
- * The Project/Save menu option now has an "Are you sure?" requester.
-
- Since version XLNf v1.03:
- * Data selection from ARexx has been corrected so that the Rexx command
- POINTADD will work.
- * The PULL window (an ARexx only window) can now open on a 200 pixel high
- screen.
- * The text of the error allert triggered when the PULL window fails to
- open has been corrected.
-
-
- Since version XLNf v1.02:
- * Loading from Project/New Graph now renders the graph in a visible
- pen and resets the maximum and minimum axis full plot values
- correctly.
-
-
- Since version XLNf v1.01:
- * Autoload from Project/Open Graph now accepts files with error bars
- correctly.
- * Autoload now reads and sets the column settings in the Data Selection
- Window.
-