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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.