PlotPoint
int PlotPoint (int panelHandle, int controlID, double xCoordinate, double yCoordinate, int pointStyle, int color);
Purpose
Plots a point onto a graph control.
Specify the position of the point in terms of x- and y-coordinates of the graph.
Supported Controls
You can use PlotPoint with graph controls.
Parameters
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| panelHandle | int | Specifier for a particular panel that is currently in memory. You can obtain this handle from functions such as LoadPanel and NewPanel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| controlID | int | The defined constant, located in the .uir header file, that you assigned to the control in the User Interface Editor, or the ID returned by functions such as NewCtrl and DuplicateCtrl. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| xCoordinate | double | Horizontal position at which to plot the point. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| yCoordinate | double | Vertical coordinate at which to plot the point. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pointStyle | int | Point style to use when plotting the array. The point style determines the type of marker to draw when the plot style is VAL_CONNECTED_POINTS or VAL_SCATTER. The default value is VAL_EMPTY_SQUARE.
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| color | int | Specifies the color of the data to plot. An RGB value is a 4-byte integer with the hexadecimal format 0x00RRGGBB. RR, GG, and BB are the respective red, green, and blue components of the color value. The first sixteen colors in the table are the sixteen standard colors.
You also can use the User Interface Library function, MakeColor, to create an RGB value from red, green, and blue color components. To enter user-defined color values, select Options»Toggle Control Style in the function panel and manually enter the color value. |
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Return Value
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| plotHandle | int | The handle of the new plot that you can use in subsequent function calls to reference the plot. If the handle is positive, the new plot was successfully added to the graph. Negative values indicate that an error occurred.
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Additional Information
Library: User Interface Library
Include file: userint.h
LabWindows/CVI compatibility: LabWindows/CVI 3.0 and later
Examples
Refer to the following examples that use the PlotPoint function:
- apps\freqresp\freqresp.cws
Open example - userint\graphlegend.cws
Open example - userint\graphs.cws
Open example