Renaming waves when duplicating graph

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Tue, 05/12/2015 - 11:26 pm

Is there a way that I have missed to rename all waves in a graph semi-automatically by appending a suffix for example? Currently I am renaming them one by one manually but this is proving tiresome. So if I have wave1 vs wave2 plotted and would like to duplicate the graph with the exact data but the waves in the new graph are called wave1_dup vs wave2_dup as an example.

Thanks in advance.
Yes. You need to write a procedure that grabs the list of waves in your graph and then renames them.

Function Appender(newsuffix)
    String newsuffix
   
    String wnames =wavelist("*",";","WIN:") //WIN: means top graph
    String name, newname
    Variable i
   
    for(i =0;i < itemsinlist(wnames);i +=1)
        name = stringfromlist(i,wnames)
        newname = name + newsuffix
        Rename $name $newname
    endfor
End


Untested but should work. Call example would be Appender("_dup").
Note 1 WIN: means top graph but you could edit this to specify which graph you want to work on.
Note 2 If you want to keep the current graph with wave1, wave2... and make a new graph with wave1_dup, wave2_dup... you need to edit the procedure to duplicate and replace (working on a duplicate of the original graph - cmd+d).

May 12, 2015 at 11:44 pm - Permalink

Have a look at
displayhelptopic "ReplaceWave"

There is also a user interface for it: Right-Click on a trace and select "Replace Wave..."
- HJ

May 14, 2015 at 05:53 am - Permalink