Specifying the Graph View
When you open the Options disclosure triangle at the bottom of the graph window, the options below are shown. From this window, you can modify the attributes of the current graph (or currently-selected gate). The first time you are shown this window, the bottom three sections are hidden; click on the black triangles to reveal them.
- Select the type of graph you wish to display... Contour, Dot Plot etc.
- Select the number of events to be displayed in a dot plot.
- Select smoothing to improve the readabilty of some graphs. Foreground and background colors can be selected here.
- Check Show Outliers to display rare events as dots.
- You can choose the scaling of the Y axis of histograms if you choose.
- The gate can be inclusionary (checked) or exclusionary (unchecked.) Select Draw Tinted to shade the area inside gates. Select the color with the green square.
- Three default statistics are the number of events gated, the total population, and the Frequency of total. Inside the box are any statistics already applied to the population using the statistics button.
Many of these options are also available by right-clicking on the graph itself.
Use the gating tools (right) when you want to create a new gate of a particular kind. They are also available in the Layout Editor by right-clicking on a graph and selecting Edit Gates.
The Quadrant tool is a special case: it creates four gates (click here for more information).
The next section lets you select which parameters to view; the third section defines the graph type and options. The fifth section is disabled unless the current graph is a histogram or CDF, in which case you could select to change the vertical (Y-axis) scaling for the plot. Finally, the bottom section is enabled whenever you have a single gate selected in the graph window. Here you can choose to gate for events inside or outside the gate, and choose to draw the gate in a different color than the default. Tinting the area inside the gate only alters the drawing of the gate; it does not change the colors of any events (dots) on any of the graphs.
You do not have to close this window; you can leave it in one corner of your screen. It automatically updates itself to reflect any new graph window that you open.
