Moving the Cursors with the Mouse
You can basically move free and bound cursors the same way. Moving bound cursors, however, is limited, since they must always follow the curve.
Moving |
Procedure |
|---|---|
Placing a cursor on a different curve |
In the left-hand column of the coordinates window, click on a curve to set the leading cursor on it. Clicking in the right-hand column moves the origin cursor accordingly. |
Activating the leading or origin cursor |
Click with your mouse in the background of the relevant coordinates window column. The left-hand column activates the leading cursor and the right-hand column activates the origin cursor. |
Moving a cross-hair cursor or line cursor |
Use your mouse to drag the vertical line of the cursor to the desired position. |
Moving both cross-hair cursors or line cursors horizontally |
Use your mouse while holding down the ALT key to drag the vertical line of a cursor to the desired position. |
Moving a cross-hair cursor vertically |
Use your mouse to drag the horizontal line of the cursor to the desired position. |
Moving both cross-hair cursors vertically |
Use your mouse while holding down the ALT key to drag the horizontal line of a cursor to the desired position. |
Freely moving a cross-hair cursor |
Use your mouse to drag the position where the two lines of the cursor intersect to the desired position. |
Freely moving both two cross-hair cursors or line cursors |
While holding down the ALT key, drag the rectangle surrounded by the cross-hairs or the vertical band bordered by the line cursor in the desired direction. |
Set a cursor on a particular point on the curve. |
Click with your mouse on the desired point. The mouse cursor must appear as an arrow. If not, such as because the point is under a cursor line, press and hold down the SHIFT key. |
Note: If you want to set a bound cursor on a particular point on the curve, just click on the location. FlexPro will then have to search for the point on the curve next to the point you clicked on. You can choose between the following options: To nearest point and Use X position. When the first option is selected, FlexPro searches the entire curve to find the point with the shortest distance from the position you selected. In this mode it is very easy to select a peak value, for instance. In the case of large data sets, however, this method is too processor-intensive, so you should select the other option instead. Then only the horizontal component of the selected position is taken into account and directly from that the index of the point to be selected is calculated. This method is very fast because FlexPro doesn’t have to search through the data set, but it only works for equidistantly sampled signals. In the Properties dialog box, select the options on the Cursor tab of the diagram, worksheet or document with the cursor you are using.
Select the option Cursor Tools/Cursors[Cursors] > Synchronize Cursors if the cursors of the other diagram should be moved synchronously in a document or worksheet.