Plot Screenshots: Multiple Axes Demo
customPlot->setLocale(QLocale(QLocale::English, QLocale::UnitedKingdom)); // period as decimal separator and comma as thousand separator
customPlot->legend->setVisible(true);
QFont legendFont = font(); // start out with MainWindow's font..
legendFont.setPointSize(9); // and make a bit smaller for legend
customPlot->legend->setFont(legendFont);
customPlot->legend->setBrush(QBrush(QColor(255,255,255,230)));
// by default, the legend is in the inset layout of the main axis rect. So this is how we access it to change legend placement:
customPlot->axisRect()->insetLayout()->setInsetAlignment(0, Qt::AlignBottom|Qt::AlignRight);
// setup for graph 0: key axis left, value axis bottom
// will contain left maxwell-like function
customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->yAxis, customPlot->xAxis);
customPlot->graph(0)->setPen(QPen(QColor(255, 100, 0)));
customPlot->graph(0)->setBrush(QBrush(QPixmap("./balboa.jpg"))); // fill with texture of specified image
customPlot->graph(0)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsLine);
customPlot->graph(0)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssDisc, 5));
customPlot->graph(0)->setName("Left maxwell function");
// setup for graph 1: key axis bottom, value axis left (those are the default axes)
// will contain bottom maxwell-like function with error bars
customPlot->addGraph();
customPlot->graph(1)->setPen(QPen(Qt::red));
customPlot->graph(1)->setBrush(QBrush(QPixmap("./balboa.jpg"))); // same fill as we used for graph 0
customPlot->graph(1)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsStepCenter);
customPlot->graph(1)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssCircle, Qt::red, Qt::white, 7));
customPlot->graph(1)->setName("Bottom maxwell function");
QCPErrorBars *errorBars = new QCPErrorBars(customPlot->xAxis, customPlot->yAxis);
errorBars->removeFromLegend();
errorBars->setDataPlottable(customPlot->graph(1));
// setup for graph 2: key axis top, value axis right
// will contain high frequency sine with low frequency beating:
customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->xAxis2, customPlot->yAxis2);
customPlot->graph(2)->setPen(QPen(Qt::blue));
customPlot->graph(2)->setName("High frequency sine");
// setup for graph 3: same axes as graph 2
// will contain low frequency beating envelope of graph 2
customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->xAxis2, customPlot->yAxis2);
QPen blueDotPen;
blueDotPen.setColor(QColor(30, 40, 255, 150));
blueDotPen.setStyle(Qt::DotLine);
blueDotPen.setWidthF(4);
customPlot->graph(3)->setPen(blueDotPen);
customPlot->graph(3)->setName("Sine envelope");
// setup for graph 4: key axis right, value axis top
// will contain parabolically distributed data points with some random perturbance
customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->yAxis2, customPlot->xAxis2);
customPlot->graph(4)->setPen(QColor(50, 50, 50, 255));
customPlot->graph(4)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsNone);
customPlot->graph(4)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssCircle, 4));
customPlot->graph(4)->setName("Some random data around\na quadratic function");
// generate data, just playing with numbers, not much to learn here:
QVector<double> x0(25), y0(25);
QVector<double> x1(15), y1(15), y1err(15);
QVector<double> x2(250), y2(250);
QVector<double> x3(250), y3(250);
QVector<double> x4(250), y4(250);
for (int i=0; i<25; ++i) // data for graph 0
{
x0[i] = 3*i/25.0;
y0[i] = qExp(-x0[i]*x0[i]*0.8)*(x0[i]*x0[i]+x0[i]);
}
for (int i=0; i<15; ++i) // data for graph 1
{
x1[i] = 3*i/15.0;;
y1[i] = qExp(-x1[i]*x1[i])*(x1[i]*x1[i])*2.6;
y1err[i] = y1[i]*0.25;
}
for (int i=0; i<250; ++i) // data for graphs 2, 3 and 4
{
x2[i] = i/250.0*3*M_PI;
x3[i] = x2[i];
x4[i] = i/250.0*100-50;
y2[i] = qSin(x2[i]*12)*qCos(x2[i])*10;
y3[i] = qCos(x3[i])*10;
y4[i] = 0.01*x4[i]*x4[i] + 1.5*(rand()/(double)RAND_MAX-0.5) + 1.5*M_PI;
}
// pass data points to graphs:
customPlot->graph(0)->setData(x0, y0);
customPlot->graph(1)->setData(x1, y1);
errorBars->setData(y1err);
customPlot->graph(2)->setData(x2, y2);
customPlot->graph(3)->setData(x3, y3);
customPlot->graph(4)->setData(x4, y4);
// activate top and right axes, which are invisible by default:
customPlot->xAxis2->setVisible(true);
customPlot->yAxis2->setVisible(true);
// set ranges appropriate to show data:
customPlot->xAxis->setRange(0, 2.7);
customPlot->yAxis->setRange(0, 2.6);
customPlot->xAxis2->setRange(0, 3.0*M_PI);
customPlot->yAxis2->setRange(-70, 35);
// set pi ticks on top axis:
customPlot->xAxis2->setTicker(QSharedPointer<QCPAxisTickerPi>(new QCPAxisTickerPi));
// add title layout element:
customPlot->plotLayout()->insertRow(0);
customPlot->plotLayout()->addElement(0, 0, new QCPTextElement(customPlot, "Way too many graphs in one plot", QFont("sans", 12, QFont::Bold)));
// set labels:
customPlot->xAxis->setLabel("Bottom axis with outward ticks");
customPlot->yAxis->setLabel("Left axis label");
customPlot->xAxis2->setLabel("Top axis label");
customPlot->yAxis2->setLabel("Right axis label");
// make ticks on bottom axis go outward:
customPlot->xAxis->setTickLength(0, 5);
customPlot->xAxis->setSubTickLength(0, 3);
// make ticks on right axis go inward and outward:
customPlot->yAxis2->setTickLength(3, 3);
customPlot->yAxis2->setSubTickLength(1, 1);