In Matlab and R I'm familiar with commands that quickly and painlessly split the current plot window up into a grid for you making it so sequential plot commands simply fill in the grid slots. Matlab even allows you to specify which slot to insert the next plot into. I've written different functions that produce grid layouts so getting it done isn't a problem however considering how much better Igor's plotting features are compared to Matlab and R I'm sort of surprised how much work it is to get even two graphs in the same plot window with their axis all in the right place and some padding between them so they aren't right against one another while those other programs make it a snap.
Does Igor actually have a feature like this that I'm missing?
I'm wondering if anyone has written a tool for this or made progress on it?
I've been manually using subplots instead of multiple axes (using Display /HOST=#), which is nice when you want to apply a style macro to each subplot, but really annoying when you need to line up the plots.
No, it's missing a feature it should have.
As you have found, you can create stacked plots using free axes and the "draw between" setting in the Modify Axis dialog, but it is too difficult.
Hopefully we will be able to make this easier some day.
November 4, 2011 at 06:21 pm - Permalink
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I've been manually using subplots instead of multiple axes (using Display /HOST=#), which is nice when you want to apply a style macro to each subplot, but really annoying when you need to line up the plots.
And what about Igor 7 doing it? :)
Here's another post I found, http://www.igorexchange.com/node/1955, which makes me think a tool should be out there...
October 27, 2015 at 03:58 am - Permalink