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Revision as of 16:07, 23 September 2019

Visual Cue Narration
Slide Number 1

Title Slide Installation of QtGrace in Windows

Welcome to the tutorial on Installation of QtGrace on Windows
Slide Number 2

Learning Objectives

In this tutorial, we will learn to
  • Download QtGrace software for Windows OS
  • Open QtGrace
  • Resize the graph panel
  • Load a dataset to a plot a graph
  • Save a Grace project
Slide Number 3

System and Software Requirement

To record this tutorial, I am using
  • Windows 10 OS
  • Microsoft Edge 40 web browser
  • Working internet connection to download QtGrace


Slide Number 4

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial,
  • Learner should be familiar with basic computer and internet skills.
Slide Number 5

Installation for windows

  • QtGrace can be downloaded from the link shown here.
  • This is a fork of Grace 5.1.22 for Windows with Qt SDK tools by Nokia.


Press windows key. Press the windows key on keyboard.
Type explorer, press Enter

Point to the browser.

In search form, type explorer and press Enter.

Web browser opens.

sourgeforge.net and press Enter . You may use any web browser of your choice.

In the address bar type sourgeforge.net and press Enter.

Cursor on the page. Sourceforge web page opens.
Type QtGrace and Enter. In the search form, type QtGrace and press Enter.
Point to the search results. The web page refreshes with the search results.
Scroll down and click on QtGrace. Scroll down to locate QtGrace and click on it.
Cursor on the page. This goes to QtGrace project details in the summary tab.
Cursor on the summary page. The summary page shows the capabilities of the program.
Click on theFiles tab. Click on the Files tab to access the files required for us.
Hover mouse on .zip and .dmg files. Here we can see the files that can be downloaded for different operating systems.
Click on QtGrace_v026_win7 file. Click on the windows binary file to download as seen in the video.
Page refreshes and after a short pause, the download starts.
point to the dialogue box.

Select save as Click on OK.

A Save as dialogue box appears.

Select Save as option and click on OK to download the program. Allow the file download to be completed.

show the Downloads folder where the files are downloaded. For me the files are downloaded to the Downloads folder.
Press windows key

TypeFile explorer and Enter

Press windows key, in search form type File Explorer and press Enter.
Go to Downloads folder. This opens the file explorer.

Go to the downloads folder in the file manager.

Point to the zip file. A compressed zip file for QtGrace has been downloaded here.

Next, extract the files from the zip file.

Select the zip file and right click. Select the zip file and right click to open the context menu.

Choose extract all and navigate to extract the files from the zip file.

click on extract all In the refreshed page, click on extract all on the top menu.

A dialogue box opens prompting me to choose path.

click on the Extract button. I will keep it as is, in the Downloads folder and click on the Extract button.
Point to the dialogue box. The files are extracted and another dialogue box shows the progress.

Allow the process to be completed.

Hover mouse next to QtGrace_v026_win7 folder name and path in file manager.

Go to folder QtGrace_v026_win7.

A new file manager window opens for me showing the extracted folder.

The folder name and path is seen in the file manager. Double click to enter in the newly created directory, as seen in the video. The files are extracted to this folder.

Go to the bin directory. Next go to the bin directory.
Double click on QtGrace application file. The QtGrace application is already compiled for you.

Select the QtGrace application file and double click on it.

This is different from the traditional windows installation.

The program and a Setup Wizard dialogue box opens. This allows the user to input program setting.

Navigate through the steps and click on finish Navigate through the set up wizard and complete it.

Click on finish to close the setup preferences dialogue box.

Narration only To open Grace at a later time, navigate to this bin folder again.

Double click on the QtGrace application file to open Grace.

Cursor on the QtGrace window. Grace opens with an empty graph panel.

First, we will adjust the graph size to fit the viewing window to field of view.

Hover mouse over corner. Observe the small squares at the corners of the plot.

You can see the squares in all the four corners.

Scroll to right and bottom.

Double click on any one of the small squares.

Scroll to right and bottom using the scroll bars.

Double click on any one of the small squares.

Point to the graph. The graph turns blue and a two direction arrow is seen.

Move the arrow towards top left to resize the graph size. We can move the arrow in any direction.

Left click to set the size. Left click at the desired position to set the size.

The blue highlight disappears.

Drag the scroll bars to fit the are. Adjust scroll bars to view the full graph area on the screen.
Let us plot a straight line graph next.
Go to Desktop Go to the Desktop.

Notice a file, line dot txt. This file is provided to you in the codefiles link of this tutorial. I have downloaded and saved it on the Desktop directory.

Open the file.

Hover mouse over header.

Double click to open the file in a text editor.

First row starts with a hash and is a comment line. Data headers may be added here.

Hover mouse over the columns Notice the two column data format.

First column is x data and second column is y data. The data values are tab separated.

Close the file. Close the file and go back to grace window.

Next, we will load data to plot a graph.

Hover mouse over limits.

Cursor on the interface.

Notice that, the axis limits are from zero to one for both axes.

Next, let’s load the data file to make a XY plot.

Click on Data tab > Import > ASCII. Click on Data tab, Import and select ASCII format.


A Grace: Read sets dialogue box opens.

Change filter from *.dat to *.txt >> press Enter.

Point to the files and folders.

In the Filter input box change *.dat to *.txt and press Enter.

This will show the list of directories and files containing the * .txt files.

Change directory to Desktop. From Directories option, select Desktop folder.
Select line.txt file. Select the file line.txt.
click load set to single set We will keep Load as Single Set.
Select Set Type as XY . Select Set Type as XY.
Select Data Source as Disk By default, Data Source is set to Disk.
Select Auto Scale on read for XY . By default, Auto Scale on read is set to XY.

Then, X and Y axis range automatically adjust to lower and higher values of data.

Click on Ok . Click on Ok button to load the data.
Click Cancel to close the Window. Click on Cancel to close the dialogue box.
Point at plot area to show straight line. We can see a graph representing the data.
Hover mouse to limits of x-y axes. X and Y limits on the graph has changed from 0 to 10.
Click on File >> Save.

Point to the dialogue box.

Let us save the file now.

Click on File and select Save. Save project dialogue box opens.

Change directory, to Desktop. Choose the location for the file to be saved.
Type file name line Dot agr is the preferred extension for grace project.

In the Selection text box, type file name line dot agr.

click on OK. Click on the OK button.
Close the save project. Close the save project.
File , Quit. To close QtGrace Click on File menu Quit.
To open Grace again, go to the bin folder of the extracted file as before.

Double click to open the binary of the application file.

Hover mouse over QtGrace application icon To open QtGrace again, double click on the QtGrace application icon.

The user preference Setup Wizard does not open after the first time.

Slide Number 6

Summary

In this tutorial, we,
  • Downloaded QtGrace for Windows
  • Set QtGrace user preferences
  • Resized the graph panel
  • Made a straight line graph from data in a file
  • Saved the QtGrace project
Slide Number 7

Assignment

As an assignment,
  • Plot a graph in QtGrace using the file, assignment.txt provided with this tutorial.
Slide Number 7

About Spoken Tutorial project.

The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.

Please download and watch it.

Slide Number 8

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Please write to us.

Slide Number 9

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Please post your timed queries in this forum.
Slide Number 10

Acknowledgement

Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.

More information on this mission is available at this link.

This is Rani from IIT Bombay.

Thank you for joining.

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