Octave Graph
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Octave Graph
Owning Palette: Octave Spectra Controls
Requires: Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite
Displays a single octave spectrum on a standard bar graph with a logarithmic scale.
Properties
You can set Octave Graph properties in the Graph Properties: Octave Graph dialog box. You also can use the following Octave Graph properties with the Property Node.
| Property | Description |
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| Appearance:Label:Visible | Displays the owned label for the object and enables the Text text box so you can edit the label. You can use the label to identify the object on the front panel and the block diagram. |
| Appearance:Caption:Visible | Displays the caption for the object and enables the Text text box so you can edit the caption. You can use the caption to display a detailed description of the object on the front panel. |
| Appearance:Enabled State | Specifies if the user can operate the object.
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| Appearance:Size:Height | Height of the object in pixels. |
| Appearance:Size:Width | Width of the object in pixels. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show graph palette | Displays the graph palette. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show plot legend | Displays the plot legend. You can customize each plot, including the plot style, line style and width, and point style. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show plot legend:Auto size to plot names | Resizes the plot legend to the width of the longest plot name visible in the legend. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show plot legend:Plots shown | Number of plots to display in the plot legend. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show x scroll bar | Displays the horizontal scroll bar. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show scale legend | Displays the scale legend. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show cursor legend | Displays the cursor legend. You can customize each cursor, including the cursor style, line style and width, and point style. |
| Appearance:Graph:Update Mode | Updates the mode of the chart.
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| Appearance:Graph:Stack plots | Displays multiple plots on the chart by using multiple vertical scales. Remove the checkmark from this checkbox to overlay the plots and display multiple plots on the chart by using a single vertical scale. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show digital display(s) | Displays the digital display of the chart, or the numeric value of the chart. |
| Appearance:Graph:Show optional plane | Displays a Nyquist plane, Nichols plane, S plane, or Z plane on an XY graph. |
| Appearance:Graph:Cartesian Lines | Shows or hides the Cartesian plane lines. |
| Appearance:Graph:Optional plane labels | Shows or hides the labels of the Nyquist plane, Nichols plane, S plane, or Z plane. Plane lines must be visible to show optional plane labels. |
| Appearance:Graph:Optional plane lines | Shows or hides the lines of the Nyquist plane, Nichols plane, S plane, or Z plane. |
| Display:Current Object | Displays the type of object you are configuring. |
| Display:Type:Floating point | Displays the numeric object in floating point notation. |
| Display:Type:Scientific | Displays the numeric object in scientific notation. |
| Display:Type:Automatic formatting | Displays the numeric object in the format that LabVIEW determines is appropriate for the data. |
| Display:Type:SI notation | Displays the numeric object in System International (SI) notation, in which the unit of measurement appears after the value. |
| Display:Type:Decimal | Displays the numeric object in base-10 decimal format. |
| Display:Type:Hexadecimal | Displays the numeric object in base-16 decimal format. Valid digits are 0 to F. |
| Display:Type:Octal | Displays the numeric object in base-8 format. Valid digits are 0 to 7. |
| Display:Type:Binary | Displays the numeric object in base-2 format. Valid digits are 0 and 1. |
| Display:Type:Absolute time | Displays the numeric object in terms of time elapsed since 12:00a.m., January 1, 1904, Universal Time. You only can set absolute time with the time stamp control. |
| Display:Type:Relative time | Displays the numeric object in terms of hours, minutes, and seconds starting from zero. |
| Display:Digits | Number of digits to display after the decimal point. This option is not available if Type is Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, or Binary. |
| Display:Precision Type | Sets whether to display digits of precision or significant digits. Select Digits of precision if you want the Digits field to indicate the number of digits to display after the decimal point. Select Significant digits if you want the Digits field to indicate the number of significant digits to display. This option is not available if Type is Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, or Binary. |
| Display:Hide trailing zeros | Removes zeros at the end of the number. If the number has no fractional part, this option also removes the description part. This option is not available if Type is Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, or Binary. |
| Display:Exponents in multiples of 3 | Formats the number in engineering notation, where the exponent is always a multiple of three. This option is not available if Type is Floating Point, SI Notation, Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, or Binary. |
| Display:Use minimum field width | Pads any excess space to the left or right of the number with zeros or spaces to reach the minimum width you enter in Minimum field width. Place a checkmark in this checkbox to set the Minimum field width and Padding. |
| Display:Use minimum field width:Minimum field width | Width to which you want to pad the number. |
| Display:Use minimum field width:Padding | Specifies whether to pad the number with space on the left, spaces on the right, or zeros on the left. |
| Display:Advanced editing mode | Contains components that allow you to specify the format and precision using format codes.
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| Plots:Plot | Plot you want to configure. |
| Plots:Name | Name of the plot. If the ignore attributes property is FALSE, you cannot set the plot name. |
| Plots:Line Style | Line style (0–4) as shown on the Plot page of the Properties dialog box ordered from top-left to bottom-right. |
| Plots:Line Width | Line width of the plot (0-5). |
| Plots:Point Style | Point Style (0–16) as shown on the Plot page of the Properties dialog box ordered from top-left to bottom-right. |
| Plots:Plot interpolation | Interpolation of the plot. |
| Plots:Colors:Line | Color of the line. |
| Plots:Colors:Point/fill | Color of the point and fills. |
| Plots:Colors:Fill to | Sets the baseline of the fill. |
| Plots:Y-scale | The y-scale to with which this plot is associated. |
| Plots:X-scale | The x-scale to with which this plot is associated. |
| Scales:Axes | Sets the scale you want to configure. |
| Scales:Name | Name of the scale. |
| Scales:Show scale label | Displays the scale label on the graph or chart. |
| Scales:Show scale | Displays the scale on the graph or chart. |
| Scales:Log | Maps the scale logarithmically. Remove the checkmark from this checkbox to map the scale linearly. |
| Scales:Inverted | Reverses the positions of the minimum and maximum values on the scale. |
| Scales:Expand digital buses | Displays digital waveform data as individual data lines. Remove the checkmark from this checkbox to display the data as a bus. |
| Scales:Autoscale | Adjusts the scale to reflect the data you wire to the graph or chart. |
| Scales:Autoscale:Minimum | Minimum value of the scale. |
| Scales:Autoscale:Maximum | Maximum value of the scale. |
| Scales:Scaling factors | Value of a scale marker and displays the marker in a convenient manner. |
| Scales:Scaling factors:Offset | Value of the origin of the plot. |
| Scales:Scaling factors:Multiplier | Interval for scaling data. |
| Scales:Scale style and colors | Style and colors of the marks on the scale. |
| Scales:Scale style and colors:Scale style | Style of the marks on the scale. |
| Scales:Scale style and colors:Major tick | Color of the major tick mark. |
| Scales:Scale style and colors:Minor tick | Color of the minor tick mark. |
| Scales:Scale style and colors:Marker text | Color of the scale marker text. |
| Scales:Grid style and colors | Style and colors of the grid. |
| Scales:Grid style and colors:Grid style | Style of the grid. |
| Scales:Grid style and colors:Major grid | Color of the major grid on the scale. |
| Scales:Grid style and colors:Minor grid | Color of the minor grid on the scale. |
| Scales:Ignore waveform time stamp on x-axes | LabVIEW sets the beginning of the x-scale to 0 instead of the value specified by t0. Remove the checkmark from this checkbox to include the time stamp information from the dynamic or waveform data in the x-scale. |
| Cursors:Cursor | Cursor you want to configure. |
| Cursors:Name | Text displayed in the plot area that is associated with the cursor. |
| Cursors:Line Style | Specifies the line style of the active cursor. Valid values are 0–4, as shown on the Cursors page of the Properties dialog box ordered from top to bottom. |
| Cursors:Line Width | Specifies the width of the line used to display the active cursor. Valid values are 0–4, as shown on Cursors page of the Properties dialog box ordered from top to bottom. |
| Cursors:Point Style | The symbol that, in combination with Style, is drawn at the focal point of the cursor. Valid values are 0-16. |
| Cursor:Cursor Style | The symbol that, in combination with Point Style, is drawn at the focal point of the cursor. Valid values are 0-8, from top-left to bottom-right, as shown on the Cursors page of the Properties dialog box. |
| Cursors:Cursor color | The color of the cursor, including its point, arrow, and name. |
| Cursors:Show name | Displays the cursor name. |
| Cursors:Show cursor | Displays the cursor. |
| Documentation:Description | Contains a description of the object. Descriptions for controls, indicators, and constants appear in the Context Help window when you move the cursor over the object. You can enter a description for a VI or function located on the Functions palette but you can only view the description in this dialog box. The description will not appear in the Context Help window. You can format the text in the description to appear bold in the Context Help window. If you want to display a carriage return in the Context Help window, you must separate paragraphs with two carriage returns. |
| Documentation:Tip strip | Contains a brief description of the object to display when you move the cursor over an object. |
| Data binding:Data binding selection | Server you want to use to bind the object. |
| Data binding:Data binding selection:Unbound | Specifies that the object is not bound to a network-publishes project item or to an NI Publish-Subscribe-Protocol (PSP) data item on the network. |
| Data binding:Data binding selection:Shared variable engine (NI-PSP) | Specifies that the object is bound to a network-publishes project item or to a PSP data item on the network using the Shared Variable Engine. |
| Data binding:Data binding selection:DataSocket | Specifies that the object is bound to a data item on the network using the DataSocket Server, or on Windows, an OPC server, an FTP server, or a Web server. |
| Data binding:Access type | Type of access LabVIEW sets for the object you are configuring. |
| Data binding:Access type:Read only | Specifies that the object reads data from a network-published project item or from a PSP data item on the network. |
| Data binding:Access type:Write only | Specifies that the object writes data to a network-published item or to a PSP data item on the network. |
| Data binding:Access type:Read/write | Specifies that the object reads data from and writes data to a network-published project item or a PSP data item on the network. |
| Data binding:Path | Path to the shared variable or data item to which you want to bind the shared variable you are configuring. |
| Data binding:Browse | Displays a file dialog or the Select Source Item dialog box, from which you can browse to the shared variable or data item to bind the object to. |