Grace/C2/Installation-of-QtGrace-on-Windows/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the tutorial on Installation of QtGrace on Windows
00:08	In this tutorial, we will learn to, Download QtGrace software for Windows OS
00:17	Open QtGrace
00:20	Resize the graph panel
00:23	Load a dataset to plot a graph and
00:27	Save a Grace project
00:30	To record this tutorial, I am using, Windows 10 OS
00:37	Firefox web browser 68.0
00:42	And working internet connection to download QtGrace
00:47	To follow this tutorial, Learner should be familiar with basic computer and internet skills.
00:55	QtGrace can be downloaded from the link shown here.
01:00	This is a fork of Grace 5.1.22 for Windows with Qt SDK tools by Nokia.
01:11	Open your default web browser.
01:15	You may use any web browser of your choice.
01:19	In the address bar, type sourgeforge.net and press Enter.
01:26	Sourceforge web page opens.
01:29	In the search form, type QtGrace and press Enter.
01:36	The web page refreshes with the search results.
01:41	Scroll down to locate QtGrace and click on it.
01:45	This goes to QtGrace project details in the summary tab.
01:51	The summary page shows the capabilities of the program.
01:56	Click on the Files tab to access the files required for us.
02:02	Here we can see the files that can be downloaded for different operating systems.
02:10	Click on the windows binary file to download as seen in the video.
02:16	The page refreshes and after a short pause, the download starts.
02:22	A Save As dialog box appears.
02:26	Select Save file option and click on OK to download the program.
02:23	Allow the file download to be completed.
02:37	For me the files are downloaded to the Downloads folder.
02:43	Open the file manager.
02:46	Go to the downloads folder in the file manager.
02:50	A compressed zip file for QtGrace has been downloaded here.
02:56	Next, extract the files from the zip file.
03:00	Select the zip file and right click to open the context menu.
03:06	Choose Extract All.
03:09	A dialog box opens prompting me to choose path.
03:14	I will keep it as is, in the Downloads folder and click on the Extract button.
03:23	The files are extracted and another dialog box shows the progress. Allow the process to be completed.
03:32	A new file manager window opens for me showing the extracted folder.
03:39	The folder name and path is seen in the file manager.
03:44	Double click to enter in the newly created directory, as seen in the video.
03:51	The files are extracted to this folder.
03:55	Next, go to the bin directory.
03:58	The QtGrace application is already compiled for you.
04:03	Select the QtGrace application file and double click on it.
04:09	The program and a Setup Wizard dialog box opens.
04:14	This allows the user to input program setting.
04:19	The user preference Setup Wizard does not open after the first time.
04:26	Navigate through the Setup wizard and complete it.
04:34	Click on Finish to close the setup preferences dialog box.
04:40	To open Grace at a later time, navigate to this bin folder again.
04:46	Double click on the QtGrace application file to open QtGrace.
04:53	Grace opens with an empty graph panel.
04:57	First, we will adjust the graph size to fit the viewing window to the field of view.
05:05	Observe the small squares at the corners of the plot.
05:10	You may see the squares in all the four corners.
05:15	Scroll to right and bottom using the scroll bars.
05:20	Double click on any one of the small squares.
05:25	The graph turns blue and a two direction arrow is seen.
05:30	Move the arrow towards top left to resize the graph size.
05:35	We can move the arrow in any direction.
05:39	Left click at the desired position to set the size.
05:45	The blue highlight disappears.
05:48	Adjust scroll bars to view the full graph area on the screen.
05:57	Let us plot a straight line graph.
06:01	Go to the Desktop.
06:03	Notice a file, line dot txt.
06:07	This file is provided to you in the codefiles link of this tutorial.
06:13	I have downloaded and saved it on the Desktop directory.
06:18	Double click to open the file in a text editor.
06:22	First row starts with a hash and is a comment line.
06:27	Data headers may be added here.
06:31	Notice the two column data format.
06:35	First column is x data and second column is y data.
06:41	The data values are tab separated.
06:45	Close the file and go back to grace window.
06:49	Next, we will load data to plot a graph.
06:53	Notice that, the axis limits are from zero to one for both axes.
07:00	Next, let’s load the data file to make a XY plot.
07:05	Click on Data tab, Import and select ASCII format.
07:13	A Grace: Read sets dialog box opens.
07:17	In the Filter input box change * dot dat to * dot txt and press Enter.
07:28	This will show the list of directories and files containing dot txt extension.
07:35	From Directories option, select Desktop folder.
07:40	Select the file line.txt.
07:44	We will keep Load as Single Set.
07:48	Select Set Type as XY.
07:52	By default, Data Source is set to Disk.
07:56	By default, Auto Scale on read is set to XY.
08:01	Then, X and Y axis range automatically adjust to lower and higher values of data.
08:09	Click on OK button to load the data.
08:13	Click on Cancel to close the dialog box.
08:17	We can see a graph representing the data.
08:21	X and Y limits on the graph have changed from 0 to 10.
08:27	Let us save the file now.
08:30	Click on File and select Save.
08:34	A Save project dialog box opens.
08:38	Dot agr is the preferred extension for Grace project.
08:44	Choose the location for the file to be saved as Desktop.
08:50	In the Selection text box, type file name line dot agr.
08:56	Click on the OK button.
08:59	To close QtGrace Click on File menu and Exit.
09:05	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we, Downloaded QtGrace for Windows
09:13	Set QtGrace user preferences
09:17	Resized the graph panel
09:21	Made a straight line graph from data in a file and
09:26	Saved the QtGrace project
09:30	As an assignment, Plot a graph in QtGrace using the file, assignment.txt provided with this tutorial.
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