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| tom3m |
Posted - 05/22/2002 : 4:50:37 PM
How do I change the label text in a legend directly from labtalk? For each column pair to be plotted, I wish to construct a legend string using a subset of text from the first entry in each column (a text entry) rather from the column name. For example, I extract current density Jval and x,y color coordinates xval, yval for the column pair and want to make a legend string that says something like
"Current Density = $(Jval) mA/cm\+(2), x = $(xval),y = $(yval)"
Is there an object method for doing this? I have tried making my own legend using the label command, eg
label -sa -j 0 \L(1) str1 \r\n \L(2) str2;
where str1 and str2 are the new strings as constructed above, but this doesn't quite line up as well as legend.
Any ideas? I'm running Oring 6.1 right now. Thanks! |
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| tom3m |
Posted - 05/23/2002 : 09:10:14 AM
Thanks Mike. The legend object is not documented very well for us newbies. I also found a link on the Origin forum (not labtalk - silly me for not searching everywhere) that shows how to make legends with long strings.
Another way that I found to be even easier is to just put the string in the column label before making the legend. You know, something like (for column number ii):
%z = mystring;
mysheet!wks.col$(ii).label$ = %z;
I don't know why I didn't start using column labels earlier to do this. It is easier to give each column a descriptive label than trying to deal with the 11 character column name limit.
Sorry, but for some reason when I posted this topic it got posted twice. I really don't know how it happened.
Cheers! |
| Mike Buess |
Posted - 05/22/2002 : 9:07:10 PM
The legend is merely a text object named "legend". You can access its contents with
%S=legend.text$;
Similarly, you can set its contents with
legend.text$=%S;
where the string variable %S can be anything you want. I'm not sure if you can use escape characters (\n, \r, etc.), by you always use the method I suggested in the Simple MessageBox topic to create multiple lines of text.
Mike Buess
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