Overview of Available Features for XY Plots

About this task

You can choose to display or hide:

Display feature Choose to Display or Hide
Ticks and numbers For the Y-axis For the X-axis
Grid Gridlines
Lines Each line
Legends Entire legend Series legend Slider legend
Legend features Specific features: Title Series' value at the slider Series' value at an index Slider's value
Axes One or more X or Y axes

You can also specify how the chart's many display features will appear.

Display feature Other Configuration Options
Colors Change for several chart elements.
Series Display the associated point or expression data.
Axes Add or remove.
Sliders Add or remove.
Fonts Change the style and size.

You configure this powerful feature in CimEdit and display it in CimView. The XY Plot is an ActiveX control that you can configure as follows.

Procedure

  1. Insert the control into a CimEdit screen.

    XY provides an XY toolbar button that you simply click.

  2. Configure the chart's design.

    A CIMPLICITY Plot Control dialog box provides a long list of design choices.

  3. Specify runtime data criteria.

    XY comes with XY properties and methods that you can use in scripts to manipulate runtime. You can also design the chart by using scripts in addition to, or instead of, the CIMPLICITY Plot Control dialog box.

    If you want to begin with a chart that is pre-configured, you can take advantage of the XY Plot SmartObject .