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AxoGraph Documentation: Table of Contents
1.1 Time Saving Information
1.2 About This Manual
1.3 Supported File Formats
1.4 Axon’s Data Acquisition Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS
1.5 System Requirements
1.6 Bug Reports
2.1 Digitized, Graph and Text Files
2.2 Continuous and Episodic Data
2.3 Traces and Groups
3.1 AxoGraph Memory Management
3.2 The Log Window
3.3 The Window Menu
3.4 The Program Menu
3.5 AxoGraph Preferences
4 Open, Import, Save and Export Files
4.1 Open a File
4.2 Create a New Text Editor Window
4.3 Open a Text File for Editing
4.4 Open an AxoGraph Data File
4.5 Default Display Settings in the Open File Dialog
4.6 Import a KaleidaGraph or CricketGraph Data File
4.7 X-Axis Data in Imported Files
4.8 Open a Text Data File
4.9 Append a Graph File to an Open Graph Window
4.10 Open an AxoData or pClamp Digitized Data File
4.11 Open a Foreign Digitized File
4.12 Save a File
4.13 Export a Graph Window to a KaleidaGraph File
4.14 Export a Graph Window to a Text Data File
4.15 Export Only Part of a Graph Window
5 Browse Graph Data
5.1 Open a Graph Window
5.2 Zoom and Unzoom
5.3 Scroll
5.4 Review Multi-Episode Data
6 Display Options
6.1 Axis Range and Title
6.2 Comment, Title and Notes Options
6.3 Symbol and Line Display Options
6.4 Symbol Legend
6.5 Automatic Axis Units
6.6 Font, Size and Style
6.7 Axis and Scale Bar Display Options
6.8 Axis Tick Length and Line Thickness Options
6.9 Interval Bars
6.10 Set the X- and Y-Axis and Error Bar Data Columns
6.11 Error Bar Options
6.12 Zero Crossing Axes
6.13 Log Axes
6.14 Raster Display
6.15 Split Clock Support
6.16 Display Tags
7 Traces, Groups and Windows
7.1 Separate or Combine All Traces
7.2 Combine Traces into Groups
7.3 Pile, Tile or Offset Groups
7.4 Next Group
7.5 Show All Traces
7.6 Hide Traces
7.7 Delete Traces
7.8 Manipulating Graph Windows
8 Print or Export a Graph
8.1 Use a Page Setup Scaling of 25% for Optimal Output Quality
8.2 Page Layout : Print a Full Page Graph
8.3 Page Layout : Print a Half Page Graph
8.4 Copy and Paste a Graph to a Drawing Program
8.5 Copy and Paste a Graph to a Word Processor
8.6 Export to a PICT File
9 Data Analysis (Graph)
9.1 Scale and Offset X- and Y-Data
9.2 Change X-Axis Zero
9.3 Normalize Peak Amplitude
9.4 Subtract Baseline
9.5 Digital Filter
9.6 Mouse Measurements
9.7 Cursors Measurements
9.8 Peak Amplitude Measurement
9.9 Peak Shape Measurement
9.10 Peak Detection
9.11 Convert to Histogram
9.12 Power Spectrum
10 Data Analysis (Text)
10.1 Create a Graph From the Text Editor
10.2 Simple Statistics in the Text Editor
10.3 Tidy Selected Text
10.4 Convert Vertical Lists into a Tab-Delimited Table
10.5 Transpose a Tab-Delimited Table
10.6 Load Vertical Lists into Arrays
10.7 Text Editor Display Options
11 Data Analysis (Curve Fit)
11.1 Fit a Line
11.2 Fit an Exponential
11.3 Fit a General Equation
11.4 Fit a User-Defined Function
12 Data Analysis (Multi-Episode)
12.1 Remove Corrupt Episodes from Analysis and Display
12.2 Average Multi-Episode Data
13 Analysis Case Studies
13.1 How to Use the Case Studies
13.2 Construct a Current-Voltage Curve from Voltage-Clamp Step Data
13.3 Calculate an Amplitude Histogram and Open-Time Histogram from Single-Channel Data
14 The Program Menu
14.1 Overview of the Program Menu
14.2 Customize the Program Menu
14.3 Commands Under the Program Menu
14.4 The Default Plug-In Programs
14.5 Copy and Paste Display Styles
14.6 Copy and Paste Graph Data
14.7 Document Utilities
14.8 Graph Utilities
14.9 More Utilities
14.10 Select Events
14.11 Electrophys Tools
14.12 Statistics
14.13 Trace Appearance
14.14 Trace Manipulations
14.15 Trace Transforms
14.16 Online Help
14.17 Add Custom Programs to the Menu
15 Plug-In Analysis Programs
15.1 The Analysis Programs
15.2 Case Studies Using Analysis Programs
16 Writing Programs
16.1 Introduction to Programming AxoGraph
16.2 A Programming Example in Basic
16.3 A Programming Example in Fortran
16.4 A Programming Example in Pascal
16.5 A Programming Example in C
17 Manipulating Graph Data and Display Parameters
17.1 Access a Data Trace
17.2 Graphs with Multiple X-Axis Data Columns
17.3 Access a Section of a Data Trace
17.4 Graph File Management
17.5 Get a Location, Range or Point via a Dialog
17.6 Set the Axis Title and Range
17.7 Manipulate Graph Windows
17.8 Manipulate Traces and Groups
17.9 Temporary Analysis Feedback
18 Math, String and Array Functions
18.1 Math Functions
18.2 Trigonometric
18.3 String Manipulation
18.4 Byte and Bit Manipulation
18.5 Array Functions
18.6 Advanced Array Functions
18.7 General Purpose Procedures
18.8 Create Array and String Variables
18.9 User Dialogs
18.10 Array Procedures
18.11 Advanced Procedures
19 File Management Functions
19.1 Change Folders
19.2 Create and Open Files
19.3 Edit Text
19.4 Read and Write Text Files
19.5 Read and Write Binary Data Files
20 Technical Information
20.1 AxoGraph File Format
20.2 Floating Point Data
20.3 Formulas and Algorithms
20.4 Simplex Optimization Algorithm
20.5 Chebyshev Algorithm