This dialog is used for creating and editing graphics environment files. A graphics environment file contains
commands that specify exactly how a graph is produced. It controls aspects like whether or not boxes are drawn
around the plots, the display of the key, and the styles and the colours of outlines for graphs such as
histograms or shade plots. The graphics environment files (*.ggd) are located in a subfolder of the
add-ins folder called graphics. There are two types of add-in folders: system and user. To
make a graphics environment file system wide, i.e. to all users that have access
to GenStat on a network server or on a local machine, the file should be placed in the graphics sub folder of the
system add-in folder called AddIns within the GenStat installation. Alternatively, to make
the graphics environment file only available to the current user the file can be placed within
the user add-in folder. The location of the user add-in folder is controlled via the
General tab within the options.
This dialog can be used to select a current graphics environment to use for graphs
within the current session and also to be loaded whenever GenStat starts.
The aspects of the environments are as follows: Axis,
Key,
Grid,
Frame,
Outlines and
>Symbols
You can create and load graphics environment files in the command language using the DLOAD
and DSAVE directives.
Current environment
This displays the description of the graphics environment that is currently active in your session.
Graphics environments
This lists all the available graphics environments files that are stored in the graphics sub folder of the add-ins folder
in GenStat. The environments are displayed using their descriptions. Note that graphics environment files stored in the system folder can only
be amended or deleted if you have the correct write permission to the folder.
| New | Allows you to create a new graphics environment to save within the add-ins folder. |
| Edit | Allows you to edit the selected graphics environment. |
| Remove | Deletes the selected graphics environment and the associated
file from the add-ins folder. |
Action Buttons
| Set as current | Loads the selected graphics environment as the current for the session. The selected
environment will also be loaded each time that GenStat is started. |
| Close | Close the menu without further changes. |
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