PLOTMODE

Purpose:

Enables or Disables a Window from drawing a graph.

Syntax:

PLOTMODE(win, mode, plotnow)

win

Optional. Window Reference. Defaults to the current Window.

mode

An integer, the plotting mode:

0:	Plotting disabled
1:	Plotting enabled (default)

plotnow

Optional. An integer, the force replot flag if mode > 0:

0:	Plot when ready
1:	Draw plotting region immediately (default)
2:	Draw entire Window immediately

Returns:

An integer, 1 if plotting is enabled, else 0.

Example:

The PLOTMODE function can be useful in a vertical bar construction to suppress plotting of the intermediate steps in the command string. For example, if Window 1 contained a test series :

W2: plotmode(0)|W1*W1|setdeltax(.01)|expandh(2)|plotmode(1)

displays only the squared and expanded series.

However, PLOTMODE is generally not required. For example, the above expression can be written as:

W2: W1*W1;setdeltax(.01);expandh(2)

In this case, intermediate plots are automatically suppressed between each semicolon delimited expression until the entire statement has been evaluated. Separating multiple statements by semicolons is preferred.

Remarks:

POFF (a macro) is equivalent to plotmode(0) and disables plotting.

PON (a macro) is equivalent to plotmode(1) and enables plotting and forces an immediate re-plot.

For plotmode(1, 1), the plotting region is immediately redrawn. The axes scales and tics are not effected.