edu.ull.cgunay.plots
Class GNUPlot

java.lang.Object
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  +--edu.ull.cgunay.plots.Grapher
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        +--edu.ull.cgunay.plots.GNUPlot

public class GNUPlot

extends Grapher

Grapher implementation for plotting with the gnuplot program.

See description in Grapher for the usage.

Created: Mon Apr 8 17:53:58 2002

Modified: $Date: 2002/12/17 00:58:53 $

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $ for this file.

Author:

Cengiz Gunay

See Also:

Grapher

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes inherited from class edu.ull.cgunay.plots.Grapher

Grapher.Axis, Grapher.Data, Grapher.DataType, Grapher.ErrorData, Grapher.MultiAxes, Grapher.PreciseProfileData, Grapher.ProfileData, Grapher.VerticalBar

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.ull.cgunay.plots.Grapher

dataTypes, err, msg, out, points, process, windowNumber

Constructor Summary

GNUPlot()
Creates a new GNUPlot instance.

Method Summary

void	close() Exits from gnuplot.
String	def_func(String name, String[] params, String body) gnuplot style function definition.
(package private) String	getLabel(Plot plot)
PlotHandle	multiPlot(Collection plots, PrintStream out) Not implemented yet!
String	plotToString(Plot plot) Deprecated. See MatLab
String	plotToString(SpikePlot plot) Returns a String representation of a spike plot for the Grapher.
void	setWindow(int windowNumber) Sets the current plot window according to grapher platform.
void	writeEPS(PlotHandle handle, String filename) Sets terminal type to postscript eps and directs the output to given filename.

Methods inherited from class edu.ull.cgunay.plots.Grapher

add, assign, command, createAxis, createMultiAxes, createMultiAxes, display, div, exp, func, geq, getPoints, mul, multiPlot, neg, paren, plotToString, plotToStringAlt, profile, quote, range, response, setPoints, sub, superposedPlot, superposedPlot, variable, waitForResponse, writeEPSbw

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GNUPlot

public GNUPlot()
        throws GrapherNotAvailableException

Creates a new GNUPlot instance.

Throws:

GrapherNotAvailableException - if the cannot instantiate the grapher process

Method Detail

plotToString

public String plotToString(SpikePlot plot)

Description copied from class: Grapher

Returns a String representation of a spike plot for the Grapher.

Specified by:

plotToString in class Grapher

Parameters:

plot - a SpikePlot value

Returns:

a String value

plotToString

public String plotToString(Plot plot)

Deprecated. See MatLab

gnuplot specific plotting command, calls plot.body().

Parameters:

plot - a Plot value

Returns:

a String value

See Also:

MatLab.plotToStringAlt(edu.ull.cgunay.plots.Plot)

getLabel

String getLabel(Plot plot)

multiPlot

public PlotHandle multiPlot(Collection plots,
                            PrintStream out)

Not implemented yet!

Specified by:

multiPlot in class Grapher

Parameters:

plots - a Collection value

out - a PrintStream value

Returns:

a String value

See Also:

multiPlot(java.util.Collection, java.io.PrintStream), MatLab.multiPlot(java.util.Collection, java.io.PrintStream)

def_func

public String def_func(String name,
                       String[] params,
                       String body)

gnuplot style function definition.

Specified by:

def_func in class Grapher

Parameters:

name - a String value, name of the function

params - a String[] value, parameter names of the function

body - a String value, the body of the function

Returns:

a String value

close

public void close()

Exits from gnuplot.

Overrides:

close in class Grapher

setWindow

public void setWindow(int windowNumber)

Description copied from class: Grapher

Sets the current plot window according to grapher platform.

Specified by:

setWindow in class Grapher

Parameters:

windowNumber - an int value

writeEPS

public void writeEPS(PlotHandle handle,
                     String filename)

Sets terminal type to postscript eps and directs the output to given filename.

Specified by:

writeEPS in class Grapher

Parameters:

handle - a PlotHandle value

filename - a String value