Drawing Panel
last modified Oct. 18, 2013
1. What is the Drawing Panel ?
The Drawing Panel is free software to easily generate time-series data
of drawing lines.
Each of the time-series data is expressed as a vector (t, x(t),
y(t)) where t denotes time (milli-second) which has
passed from the start of drawing line, and x(t) and
y(t) denote the coordinates of point at time t.
This program provides several useful functions such as save and load
ones to save a text file which consists of time-series data and to
load those from a text file, respectively.
The format of the text files is also available for gnuplot.
For the detail about provided functions, see the manual below.
This program is available in Windows, Macintosh and Unix systems such
that Java runtime environment (JRE) can be installed.
2. How to get ?
This program is free software and everyone is permitted to download it.
Before downloading, please understand that we abdicate responsibility
for any trouble and any technical support regarding this program.
You must accept this statement to download this program.
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Also, only for academic aims we will accept that you have the freedom
to distribute copies of this program, that you receive source code if
you want it, and that you can change the program or use pieces of it
in new free programs.
For these, please feel free to get in touch with us.
Incidentally, we welcome someone who would like to develop this
program greatly without a fee.
However, you must make it free software in this case.
3. How to use ?
3.1. Installation of JRE
If JRE ver. 7 and up is not installed in your system, download JRE
(or JDK) from here and then install
it. We recommend installing the latest version of JRE (or JDK).
Remark
In Windows system, you can usually confirm the JRE version installed
in your system by visiting the folder, C:\Program Files\Java.
For example, when "jre1.7.x_xx" exists in the folder, this means that
JRE ver. 7 and up has been installed in your system.
You can also confirm the JRE version installed by launching java
-version in the command prompt.
For example, when "java version 1.7.x_xx" is shown in the command
prompt, this means that JRE ver. 7 and up has been installed.
3.2. Start of this Program
Double-click the mouse button on the jar file or launch java -jar
DrawPanelv1_5.jar in the command prompt.
4. Manual
4.1. List of menu items
These are the menu items available on this program.
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Options Menu
- Help Menu
4.2. Operating manual
Select this item to load time-series data from a text file.
When successfully loaded, the drawing lines of the file will appear in
the panel.
The lines are drawn with a color that you are currently choosing in
the "Color" item.
Note that all existing data will be completely cleared by this
operation.
You must save those data before loading if you need.
Select this item to load time-series data from a text file.
When successfully loaded, the drawing lines of the file will also
appear in the panel.
This is slightly different from the "Open" item in that the loaded
data is appended to existing data.
Selecting this item will save a text file which consists of
time-series data of drawing lines shown in the panel.
Each of the time-series data is described as (t, x(t), y(t))
in the text file, where t denotes time (milli-second) which
has passed from the start of drawing line, and x(t) and
y(t) denote the coordinates of point at time t.
This is an example of saved text file.
Selecting this item will save an image file of drawing lines shown in
the panel.
You can choose one of plug-ins in saving it.
The plug-ins supported in the current version are JPEG, PNG, BMP,
GIF, ASCII encoded PBM, ASCII encoded PGM, and ASCII encoded PPM.
This is an example of saved image by JPEG
format.
Select this item to kill the program.
Undo (simplified ver.)
Select this item only to remove the last added line data.
Note that this is a simplified "undo"-function but not standard one
which undoes the last action.
Selecting this item will clear all existing data.
You can choose in this item whether the grid is drawn or not.
You can choose a pen-color in this item.
Selecting this item will display the message dialog that the URL of
this manual is described.
For convenience, the URL is also copied to a clipboard of your system
so that you can immediately paste it into the web browser.
Selecting this item will display the message dialog.
The message dialog shows your OS name, OS version, Java version and
Java vendor.
Select this item to show the version of this program by message dialog.
5. Ask Questions and Report Problems
Thank you for your interest in this program.
If you have questions or you are reporting errors, kindly inform me by
email.
Acknowledgments
We thank M. Sugino and N. Goto for helpful comments to this program.
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All Right Reserved by Kazunori Iwata