Constant Grid

[myzinsky]

Hi,

I have a timing diagram like this:

timimng.jpg

I want a constant grid, for example every 10 ns because this represents e.g. a clock.

Compare: http://www.texample.net/media/tikz/e...ng-diagram.png

Any ideas?

[Uwe]

QwtPlotGrid draws major or minor grid lines depending on the ticks it gets from the corresponding scales. So you have the option to modify the scale f.e by setting a step size to 10 - or by modifying the max major, max minor attributes. When you don't need zooming/panning you can even assign the ticks manually ( using QwtPlot::setAxisScaleDiv() ).

The other option is to have the grid lines independent from the scales. For this you can overload QwtPlotGrid::updateScaleDiv(). Simply replace the ticks in the incoming scaleDiv object by something aligned to 10 and keep its boundaries.

HTH,
Uwe

[myzinsky]

I Set the stepsize to 10...

But, whe I zoom everything changed again

[Uwe]

But, whe I zoom everything changed again

Setting a fixed step size doesn't make too much sense when zooming ( consider a step size of 10 for a range of 5-6 ).

But as I wrote before - simply decouple the grid from the ticks of the scales by overloading QwtPlotGrid::updateScaleDiv().

class YourGrid: public QwtPlotGrid
{
public:
    ...
   virtual void updateScaleDiv( const QwtScaleDiv& xScaleDiv, const QwtScaleDiv& yScaleDiv )
   {
        QwtScaleDiv scaleDiv;
        scaleDiv.setInterval( xScaleDiv.interval() );
 
        double min = xScaleDiv.interval().lowerBound();
        double max = xScaleDiv.interval.upperBound();
        if ( min > max )
            qSwap( min, max );
 
        const int stepSize = 10.0;
 
        min = static_cast<int>( min / stepSize ) * stepSize;
 
        QList<double > ticks;
        for ( double tick = min; tick <= max; tick += stepSize )
            ticks += tick;
 
       scaleDiv.setTicks( QwtScaleDiv::MajorTick, ticks );
 
       QwtPlotGrid::updateScaleDiv( scaleDiv, yScaleDiv );
}

class YourGrid: public QwtPlotGrid
{
public:
    ...
   virtual void updateScaleDiv( const QwtScaleDiv& xScaleDiv, const QwtScaleDiv& yScaleDiv )
   {
        QwtScaleDiv scaleDiv;
        scaleDiv.setInterval( xScaleDiv.interval() );

        double min = xScaleDiv.interval().lowerBound();
        double max = xScaleDiv.interval.upperBound();
        if ( min > max )
            qSwap( min, max );

        const int stepSize = 10.0;

        min = static_cast<int>( min / stepSize ) * stepSize;

        QList<double > ticks;
        for ( double tick = min; tick <= max; tick += stepSize )
            ticks += tick;

       scaleDiv.setTicks( QwtScaleDiv::MajorTick, ticks );

       QwtPlotGrid::updateScaleDiv( scaleDiv, yScaleDiv );
}

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Uwe

[myzinsky]

It works fine!

But I had to change this:

double min = xScaleDiv.interval().minValue();
double max = xScaleDiv.interval().maxValue();

double min = xScaleDiv.interval().minValue();
double max = xScaleDiv.interval().maxValue();

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Tank You Uwe!
Regards