Tools Panel

The Tools Panel centralizes the management of most of the features of this application, with a few more provided through the context menu. This panel can be expanded/collapsed clicking on its top right green icon, and moved dragging its title bar.

• The Display section provides control for showing/removing the background image, cross-hair and reference grid. It also has two buttons to zoom in (up to 2000%) and out (to 20%).
  
  
• The Setup section groups the calibration and configuration.
  
  
• There is a section for the background image, the source or model used as base for the traces.
  
  
• The Edit section provides the usual copy/cut/paste/delete/select/clear options, plus the rotate shape and list of shapes.
  
  
• With the controls in the Group and Lock section is is possible to make sets of shapes, and lock them.
  
  
• The File section allows to save the traces in a host of different formats, and to load data in a limited set of formats and transform it into traces.
  
  
• The traces are incorporated to the plot using the primitives section. The shapes can be points, lines, rectangles, ellipses, polylines and others.
  
  
• The green strip shows the mouse coordinates and the current zoom value. The x (on the left) and y (on the right) are shown in black when the plot has been calibrated; otherwise, they are in red. The values may have a trailing letter, such as u, m, K, M to indicate scale (sub)multipliers (1/1000000, 1/1000, 1000, 1000000).
  
  
• Sometimes some shapes overlap other shapes. They can be reordered using the buttons in the Order section, to send them back or bring them to front.
  
  
• The shapes can be organized using the Align section, to make vertical, center or horizontal matches.
  
  
• The Layers section provides access to the layers list and to the image processing routines.
  
  
• The Exit section has a button for an off-line help and the way to exit the application.