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Fri, 02/05/2016 - 08:25 pm

One thing that always troubled me is that it is hard to mainting an organized structure of the open graphs and tables. I tried that macro which creates subwindows, but didn't like it (sorry). It might just be me, but my Igor window is on the brink to being chaotic and I have to take great care to keep everything in order. I don't like minimizing graphs, since then they just disappear into an unidentifyable little bar without a full name and one always has to maximize them in order to find out what they were.
One way I found myself going lately is to create very small graphs, so that many can fit my screen. But then sometimes they are too small to just export them and one has to resize... that is tedious work :-(.
It would be great if the minimization/maximization of graphs could be done in an additional way: By simply leftclicking e.g. a small symbol (e.g. a magnification glass) that gets implemented by default in every upper left corner inside the graph or in the graph menu. Then the graph gets shrunk or enlarged, whatever the setting is, another click reverses it. Some keyboard shortcut for this would be sweet. The setting can be changed by rightclicking on that symbol, that then gives different options, such as range -200 to 200% or so.
What do you think?
Aardvark wrote:
One thing that always troubled me is that it is hard to mainting an organized structure of the open graphs and tables. I tried that macro which creates subwindows, but didn't like it (sorry). It might just be me, but my Igor window is on the brink to being chaotic and I have to take great care to keep everything in order. I don't like minimizing graphs, since then they just disappear into an unidentifyable little bar without a full name and one always has to maximize them in order to find out what they were.
One way I found myself going lately is to create very small graphs, so that many can fit my screen. But then sometimes they are too small to just export them and one has to resize... that is tedious work :-(.

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