ProSim Ternary DiagramSTRATEGE Bâtiment A BP 2738 F-31312 LABEGE Cedex FRANCE Tél. : + 33 (0)5 62 88 24 30 Fax : + 33 (0)5 62 88 24 39 E-Mail : [email protected] .11 16......................................................1.............................................................. Surface type series.........ProSim Ternary Diagram _______________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS 1........................................................ Points type series ..............................................5 8.............................................................................................................3...................... Language menu .......................................................................... Secondary windows ......................................................................................8 13.5 9..................................................................................................................................................................................... The series list ................................................................................2 3................................................................... Axes .............................................................................................................................................................................................. Main window ............2 4.............................................................................. Tools bar ............................10 14............................... Graph visual properties ............................................................................................9 13.......................................................................... Header and footer :............................................................. The menu bar ...... Lines type series .................................................................... Introduction...............5 7............................ Edit menu ................................................... Status bar...........................................7 11.............................6 10........................................................................................................4 6......................................................7 12......................................................................2...........................................................................................3 5.12 ..................................9 13............................................................................. Diagram..................................................................................................9 13........................................... Series.............................10 15...................................................................................................................... File menu.....................................1 2........................ Visualization menu ............................... You can thus use it on any number of computers you want and freely provide a copy of it to your circle.ProSim Ternary Diagram 1 _______________________________________________________________________________ 1. This application. As you know it. is completely free. For this reason. This application allows you to trace easily and quickly series of points or lines resulting from experimental data or calculations. that you will be able to discover in the following pages. Introduction Welcome in the free ProSim ternary diagram drawing application. it is always tiresome to plot a ternary diagram by hand and the existing software tools making allowing it automatically are generally very expensive or insufficient. ProSim decided to develop an easy to use but powerful application enabling you to create these diagrams in a few mouse clicks. . the ProSim Ternary Diagram application has a menu bar giving access to the majority of most actions of the application. These 5 different parts are : The menu bar. 3. the tool bar. The menu bar Like all classics Windows applications. the series list. .ProSim Ternary Diagram 2 _______________________________________________________________________________ 2. Main window The ProSim Ternary Diagram application is built on a main window containing some distinct parts. the diagram. the status bar. Enhanced metafile (*......bmp) : saves the current diagram image in the native Windows image format useable in any graphics application. this command starts the Save as.txt) : a simple text file containing all the raw diagram data. File menu New : clears the current diagram and creates a new one. command. ... this format is not compressed and may produce large files. Open. : allows to open a previously saved diagram.. PNG images : saves the current diagram image in the selected format. : saves the current diagram in a file and asks you for its name and path.. Xml file(*. Save as. : Allows to save the diagram on various formats useable in other applications : Text file (*.ProSim Ternary Diagram 3 _______________________________________________________________________________ 4.. Warning.xml) : equivalent to Save as. Windows bitmap (*..emf) : saves the current image of the diagram in a vector drawing format allowing you to modify the diagram in any vector graphics application. If the diagram has never been saved. Only the numerical values are exported. Export. Quit : closes the application. Save : saves the current diagram in a file.. : Prints the current diagram image. JPEG. TIFF. GIF. Print.. . B. Add a Lines type series: appends a new series to the diagram. Delete this series : deletes the currently selected series. This window allows you to modify a large number of visual parameters :Colors. : opens the series edition window to enable to modify the currently selected series. lines width. This series accepts any number of points specified by a triplet T(A. If the last point is not equal to the first point.. Edit menu Copy the image into the clipboard : saves the current diagram image in the clipboard allowing you to paste it in a graphic application. This series is equivalent to a Points series with a particularity.. Change background color. B2. Add a Surface type series : appends a new series to the diagram. Add a Points type series : appends a new series to the diagram. : opens the diagram visual properties edition window.. A line segment will be drawn between these two points. C2). the area will be closed by joining the first and last points. font styles. C1)... Copy the series data into the clipboard : puts in the clipboard the whole series data in a tab separated form. etc. Line segments will join these points. Edit this series. This series accepts any number of points couples specified by two triplets T1(A1.. It is thus possible to paste these values in a spreadsheet or a word processing software in a single operation. . The series defines an area which will be filled with a chosen color. C) whose values lie between 0 and 1 and whose sum is equal to 1.. Edit the graph visual properties. : opens a color selection dialog box allowing to change the diagram background color. T2(A2. B1.ProSim Ternary Diagram 4 _______________________________________________________________________________ 5. The axes positions are modified to follow the rotation. use the zoom buttons instead. Language menu English : changes the application current language to English. Rotate right : rotates all points clockwise. B) after the rotation. French : changes the application current language to French. The axes positions are modified to follow the rotation. If your mouse does not have a wheel. B. This window gives detailed information about the point under the mouse cursor. Normal cursor : allows to quit the zoom and segment modes and to come back to standard behavior. C) will be expressed as (B. In this mode. C) will be expressed as (C. 8. Tools bar The tools bar contains some buttons allowing to access some useful application functions. B. . you can move the diagram with a mouse drag and zoom in or out using the mouse wheel. Visualization menu Adjust graph into its window : automatically adjusts the size and position of the diagram to fit the drawing into the window. C. Rotate left : rotates all points anti-clockwise. A. Identification window : shows or hides the identification window. Change the projection mode : switches between ternary diagram and rectangular diagram modes. Exchange left and right axes : exchanges the B and C values of all points of all series and exchanges the left and right corresponding axes. 7.ProSim Ternary Diagram 5 _______________________________________________________________________________ 6. The points (A. The points (A. A) after the rotation. Add a Lines type series. Zoom out : this mode allows to shrink the diagram around the pointed zone. Surface). command on the Edition menu). The series list This window part shows the complete list of the series currently in the diagram.. Zoom in : this mode allows to enlarge the diagram around the pointed zone. Add a Surface type series.ProSim Ternary Diagram 6 _______________________________________________________________________________ Trace a line : this mode allows to add line segments with two clicks on the diagram. For more information on these commands.. please read the Menu bar section of this document. A double-click on a series shows the edition window (equivalent to the Edit this series. Lines. the second one sets the end point. Delete this series. The first click sets the start point. You can also use your right mouse button to call a context menu giving access to the following series commands : Add a Points type series. 9. . These series are represented by their name and type (Points. here are the different parts that compose the diagram. Diagram The plot zone contains the diagram. A right click shows a context menu allowing to show the visual properties window or to change the background color. 11. Header and footer : . To better understand the various properties that can be modified.ProSim Ternary Diagram 7 _______________________________________________________________________________ 10. You can. left and represent the A. They are named bottom. for example. B and C parts of the points. . show 100 mark lines and only 10 labels to get a readable diagram. Line : the axis. Lines and labels are managed separately and thus allow customizing the drawing of axes. They do not have a "physical" reality.ProSim Ternary Diagram 8 _______________________________________________________________________________ The header and the footer can contain some free text which format can be modified (size. Marks : the number of marks and their appearance are fully configurable.5 indicates a A concentration of 0. 12. right. Axes The diagram's axes are only used to locate the concentration levels of a compound.5. a point located on a line leading to 0. For example. etc). Each axis is made of distinct parts : Text : the label of the axis Grid : some lines allowing to read the diagram. color. 1.ProSim Ternary Diagram 9 _______________________________________________________________________________ 13. Series 13. Lines type series . Points type series 13.2. ProSim Ternary Diagram 10 _______________________________________________________________________________ 13. the point number and its exact coordinates. 14. Status bar The status bar shows continuously the ternary coordinates of the mouse cursor. it is possible to specify the opacity of the color used to fill the area to see through it.3. . the status bar indicates the name of the series. Surface type series Note : As you can see it on this example. If the mouse cursor is above a point of a series. Paste all : Pastes values from the clipboard. Pressing the Enter key when the last cell of the grid is selected adds a new line to the grid. These values can come from a spreadsheet or any application that can manage data tables. . These data can be paste in a spreadsheet or any other application able to manage text values separated by tabs. The tool bar located above the grid supplies you with some automatic operations : Copy all : Copies all the values of the series in the clipboard. Secondary windows The series edition window The series edition window allows to type or modify the points of a series.ProSim Ternary Diagram 11 _______________________________________________________________________________ 15. The data grid allows typing the values straight in using the Enter key to go to the next cell. If you paste data from another software. The first point become the last one and the last point become the first one. Invert series : The order of a series points is important because these points will be joined with a line segment. 16. . the sum of its coordinates must be equal to 1. data can be provided in term of percentage. It can be useful to quickly change this order. The Normalize data button leads to convert the whole series points. the right part shows the properties.ProSim Ternary Diagram 12 _______________________________________________________________________________ Normalize data : In order to have a relevant position of a point in the diagram. Graph visual properties The graph visual properties window allows to change a lot of options. This button allows you to invert the points order with a single click. The window is split into two distinct parts : The left part allows selecting the property type to consult or edit. The properties shown in the right part of the window depend on the item selected in the left part of the window. which can be modified separately. Each item has its own property set. click on a series and move the mouse cursor to the new place while keeping the left mouse button pushed.ProSim Ternary Diagram 13 _______________________________________________________________________________ Note : it is possible to change the plot order of the series by moving them in the list. To move a series. .