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Hi Dave,
Since I have put the base note in, I have been burning the midnight
oil!
Yes I had been putting GDOS in, but it was much more subtle than this.
BSTAT is a GFA BASIC program. The PD version is interpreted, (the
shareware version will be compiled).
So I have to install in my one meg machine, GDOS plus, GDOS.acc,
portconf.acc. I then have to run GFA basic runtime, which "calls" the
BSTAT.sys (the gdos descriptor file), and then load BSTAT.GFA, which is
450K long. As you might guess there is sod all memory left to load Gdos
fonts and drivers.
After I stripped everything off the machine, and created a new
environment, with just the above memory usage, when I got BSTAT loaded I
got a NEW message that said I had 192 points available for plotting
under GDOS. When I looked at the GDOS menu, IT WAS ENABLED. !!!
I have created numerous graphs and O/P then on the 24 pin NEC. The
quality is SUPER.
BSTAT is a fantastic program. The Stats section is extremely
comprehensive, fast and easy to use. There is a Data entry facility,
either from major spread sheets or from an editor.
The graphics section is tremendous. Every sort of graph and pie in the
world is catered for. auto and manual scaling, logs, lin, XY, XYZ,
floating bar, max, min, point, bar, bubble, etc etc. They are all
displayed on screen and easily edited.
If this was a commercial program it would be priced in the hundreds of
bucks!!!
However you are pinching to run it on a 1040 !!!!
NOW I got ambitious. I recently bought the HP GDOS plotter driver from
MIGRAPH. It works well under Easydraw. So I thought here goes. Plot the
graphs on my Plotter, in glorious technicolor!.
I changed the .SYS file to include just the plotter fonts and driver,
and changed the GDOS device in BSTAT to 11 (plotter). Lo and behold, it
output the frame and axis for a graph, however it didnt plot the actual
graph lines. Not to beaten. instead of seleting plot, I instructed
BSTAT to dump in METAFILE format. I then had a test.gem file. I loaded
EASYDRAW and inported it. Great. I then saved it from EASYDRAW and
PLOTTED it from OUTPRINT. Great, However the lines were all plotted
with the same pen. I ran a utility I have called MDUMP.TTP (which dumps
.gem files), The polyline color parameter was set to color one for all
lines, although I had set BSTAT to plot different colors.
The problem is I use a mono monitor. BSTAT runs in high res, so it
knows that it can only display graphs on screen in black (or as chain
dot lines, dotted, dashed etc), so it appears to ignore me when I tell
it to select six different line colours!. Under Eastdraw I can edit
each polyline and give it a dif color, but this is a very slow and
painul process, I have to ungroup the whole graph, pick and select a
part of a line and whilst the box is active, change its color.
The other way is to inspect and edit the .GEM file and change each
occurrence of the polyline color definition.
Or does anyone know an easier way to change line colors?
Cheers
Pat K.
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| Alas, you may be screwed. A cheap way to get a color monitor would be to
see if Practical Solutions makes a PAL version of it VideoKey, which is
an RGB -> NTSC converter. The other thing that might work is to run one
of those programs that fakes color, you could then enter the color codes.
I went through a similar problem when I wanted to be able to videotape
something I created in Easydraw. I had a MultiSync monitor, but it was
still difficult to get the colors allocated in a way that they also made
sense in monochrome.
Good luck,
-Dave
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