Graph ► Tools
Tools operate on Tasks and are implemented as separate views. The following sections describe Tools.
Tool | Description |
Home | The home tool is a task selector. Tasks are organized by data type and are one of Set Of Scalars, Set Of 2D Points, 3DPoints, Z Values, Density Values, Least Squares, Maps, Accelerometer Vectors or Location Tracking. |
Projects | The Projects tool defines projects and sets a current project. Data and preferences are stored on a project basis and you can define new projects or remove projects as needed. You can also set a project to the current project. Only the current project's data, preferences and skins are used by the tasks. |
Purpose | Use this tool to set the overall purpose of the application. |
Fetch Data | Use this tool to set URLs for fetching data from the web. |
Table Editor | Use this tool to edit data in a table format. |
Edit Data | Use this tool to edit data. |
Show Data | Use this tool to show data. |
Edit Graph | This tool is used to define skins for the graph of the current project, task and data representation type. As a matter of convenience, it also has an animation button. |
Preferences | This tool sets basic preferences that are common to all the representations of the task it operates on. |
Reset | This tool resets the data of the task. |
Info | This tool shows the key value pairs (dictionary) that generates the graph displayed in the task. |
Export | This tool provides means to export a graph to other applications and data stores. |
Help | This tool shows help for the current task. Help is built into the Tasks, however this manual provides much more extensive descriptions of Tasks. |