Gradient Plot Utility

The gradient plot utility is intended as a PICS-based replacement for the MSDOS-based BASIC program that displays cell pressures and their replationship to the current gradient across the cascade. The most commonly used features of the original program have been duplicated in gPlot, some of the least used features were not duplicated.

Two new features has recently been added to gPlot:

1. The former HELP panel (F1) has been replaced with a USER DATA screen. The user may now specify any group for display on the F1 panel, using the same format as the F2 panel. The panel can display only the first 30 points, any more will be ignored.
2. The F10 key has been attached to a panel that displays the current gradient values in the same format and layout as the HIGH SIDE PRESSURE LISTING (F4) panel.

The newer gPlot also has moved some configurable settings into a user-specific INI file (gPlot-user.ini) allowing a user's preferences for font, window placement and user data to be saved between sessions. Splitting the INI into two parts allows the primary part to ve controlled and verified using the PICS verification system, while still allowing some user customization.

There is one more new feature that, hopefully, will never be necessary:  Reset Screen. This menu option sizes gPlot to 90% of the height and width of the primary display and positions the program's window in the center of the primary display. The feature was added as a quick and easy way to recover from some of the strange window placements that may occur if the saved window position information (in gPlot-user.ini) is corrupted (or from a differently configured system). Corrupt position data may result in the program window "appearing" far off the visible edge of a display, making manual recovery difficult, if not impossible. Using Reset Screen quickly and easily corrects this problem, should it ever occur.