The program KUPLOT allows to divide the plotting space into smaller areas called FRAMES. Each frame can be individually positioned on the plotting space. The user can define which loaded dataset should be displayed in which frame, alternatively, the contents of a text file can be printed in a frame. Each frame has its own set of parameters like title, axis labels, tick marks, ... . All commands related to frames are listed below:
afra : sets the active frame for user input bfra : sets background colour for specified frame cfra : copy frame parameters fram : defines if a border is plotted around each frame kfra : define contents of frames (data sets or text) nfra : set number of frames (default = 1) sfra : define position and size of frame
The active frame is set to <if>. All parameters like title, axis lables, plotting window etc. are entered for the active frame. Is 'afra' entered without parameters, the actual active frame is displayed. The setting of one frame can be copied to another frame with the 'cfra' command.
This command sets the background colour for frame <if>. The colour is given as RGB (red,green,blue) value ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. The default is a white background (1.0 1.0 1.0).
If the background colour is changed frequently, the X-window server might be unable to allocate additional colours if bitmaps are used. To free the used colours reenter the command 'cmap' which will create a new colourmap.
This command copies the settings of frame <ifr> (like title, contour line settings, plot window, ..) to frames <i1>, <i2>, ...
This command determines weather a black border is plotted around the graph / each individual frame. Called without parameters, no border will be plotted.
This command sets the contents for frame <if>. A frame can either contain the graphs of dataset(s) <ik1>,.. of the contents of a text file, specified by <fname>. Special text frames are "para" which prints data information and "fit" giving the fit results.
This command sets the total number of frames to be used. For most values of <n> KUPLOT defines a default layout. If no default layout is found, a warning is given. The layout can be changes using the command 'sfra'.
This command allows to define the layout of the frames on the plot space. The lower left corner of the plot space is 0,0, the upper right is 1,1. The lower left corner <xmin>,<ymin> and the upper right corner <xmax>, <ymax> for each frame <if> can be specified with the 'sfra' command.