Scilab Data type
Last update : 2002

legend_properties - description of the Legend entity properties

Description

The Legend entity is a leaf of the graphics entities hierarchy. This entity defines the parameters for legends drawn below plot2dx graphs. For each line plotted, the legend shows a sample of the line type, marker symbol, and color.

visible: This field contains the visible property value for the entity . It should be "on" or "off" . If "on" the legend is drawn , If "off" the legend is not displayed on the screen.
line_mode: This field contains the default line_mode property value for the segs. Its value should be "on" (line drawn) or "off" (no line drawn).
mark_mode: This field contains the default mark_mode property value for the polyline. Its value should be "on" (marks drawn) or "off" (no marks drawn).
mark_foreground: This field contains the mark_foreground property value which is the marks' edge color. Its value should be a color index (relative to the current color_map).
mark_background: This field contains the mark_background property value which is the marks' face color. Its value should be a color index (relative to the current color_map).
foreground: This field contains the color index used to draw legend. Its value should be a color index (relative to the current colormap).
text: This field is the character string vector which contains the legend.
parent: This property contains the handle of the parent. The parent of the legend entity should be of the type "Agregation" . This agregation entity contains also the remainder of the graph's entities.

Examples

   

  set("figure_style","new") //create a figure
   plot2d();
   a=get("current_axes");
   l=a.children.children(1)
   l.text="sin(x)@sin(2*x)@sin(3*x)";
   l.visible="off";
    

 
  

See Also

plot2d ,   graphics_entities ,  

Author

Djalel ABDEMOUCHE