Grace/C2/Installation-of-QtGrace-on-Windows/English
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Title Slide Installation of QtGrace in Windows |
Welcome to the tutorial on Installation of QtGrace on Windows |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using,
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Installation for windows |
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Open web browser. | Open your default web browser.
You may use any web browser of your choice. |
sourgeforge.net and press Enter . |
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 File. 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. |
Open File Manager. | Open the file manager. |
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.
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Click on Extract all . | Choose Extract All.
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. | A new file manager window opens for me showing the extracted folder.
The folder name and path is seen in the file manager. |
Go to the folder QtGrace_v026_win7. | 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. |
The program and a Setup Wizard dialogue box opens.
This allows the user to input program setting. The user preference Setup Wizard does not open after the first time. | |
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 QtGrace. |
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 the 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. | |
Go to Desktop | Go to the Desktop. |
Hover mouse next to line.txt file. | 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.
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Read set dialogue box opens. | 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 * dot dat to * dot txt and press Enter.
This will show the list of directories and files containing dot txt extension. |
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. A Save project dialogue box opens. |
Hover mouse near .agr. | Dot agr is the preferred extension for Grace project. |
Change directory, to Desktop. | Choose the location for the file to be saved as Desktop. |
Type file name line.agr. | 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 and Exit. |
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Summary |
Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we,
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Assignment |
As an assignment,
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Acknowledgement |
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