Re: REQ: alternative plot procedure?

[Patrick Broos <patb(at)astro.psu.edu>]

Luis Alonso wrote:
> Is there avaible an alternative procedure to standard
> plot, in which one can
> zoom in, out, measure coordinates, scroll through the data...?

You're welcome to use our widget tool function_1d (a GUI replacement for

the PLOT routine).  You can easily control the plot axes, symbols, line styles,

colors, titles, etc. and can overplot multiple datasets.

It's part of a large package that supports analysis

of x-ray astronomical data, but function_1d (and several other widget

tools: dataset_1d, dataset_2d, function_2d) are quite general.

The package is at ftp://ftp.astro.psu.edu/pub/axaf/TARA/

The manual section you'll be most interested in is

http://www.astro.psu.edu/xray/docs/TARA/TARA_users_guide/node33.html

although other sections of the manual may be helpful.

I can answer reasonable questions you may have after exploring the

manual.


Good luck,

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