QwtPolarPlot questions

[Galabis]

Hi!

I would be grateful if you could help me with QwtPolarPlot.

1. I need a plot, where points with minimum radius would be placed not at center, but on some circle. I mean, that there must be inactive area at the center so the radial axis starts at some distance from pole.

2. The second problem appears, when I change radial scale. All points with radius, that is less than new radial scale minimum, are painted at the center of the plot, but I want them not to be painted exactly. How can I avoid this effect?

Thanks in advance
Regards

[Uwe]

1. I need a plot, where points with minimum radius would be placed not at center, but on some circle. I mean, that there must be inactive area at the center so the radial axis starts at some distance from pole.

On your first screenshot I can see a scale with the first tick at 4000 - nothing special.

2. The second problem appears, when I change radial scale. All points with radius, that is less than new radial scale minimum, are painted at the center of the plot, but I want them not to be painted exactly. How can I avoid this effect?

Looks like you want to have a transformation that is different for values >= "minimum" and values between 0->minimum. Check QwtScaleEngine::transformation().

Uwe

[Galabis]

On your first screenshot I can see a scale with the first tick at 4000 - nothing special.

Actual minimum of radial scale on the picture is 2000. I can fit good minimum to have the same picture with limits 2000-18000, but the problem is that I need to change scale limits often, so the ticks appear in inactive area. I want the radius of inactive area to be adjustable, for example about 1/5 of the full plot radius, and to have a minimum tick at the border of this area independently of its radius.

Looks like you want to have a transformation that is different for values >= "minimum" and values between 0->minimum. Check QwtScaleEngine::transformation().

I looked at QwtScaleEngine::transformation() and made a suggestion, that you mean method QwtScaleTransformation::xForm(), which returns negative value in my case. I wrote the code, but it had no effect. Where am I wrong?

class MyTransformation: public QwtScaleTransformation {
public:
  MyTransformation(Type type) : QwtScaleTransformation(type)  {};
  virtual double xForm(double x, double s1, double s2, double p1, double p2) const {
    if (type() == Log10) {
      return p1 + (p2 - p1) / log(s2 / s1) * log(x / s1);
    }
    else {
      if (x < s1) {
        x = 18100;
      }
      return p1 + (p2 - p1) / (s2 - s1) * (x - s1);
    }
  }
  virtual QwtScaleTransformation* copy() const {
    return new MyTransformation(QwtScaleTransformation::Linear);
  }
};
 
 
class MyScaleEngine: public QwtLinearScaleEngine {
  virtual QwtScaleTransformation* transformation() const {
    return new MyTransformation(QwtScaleTransformation::Linear);
  }
};
 
setScaleEngine(QwtPolar::ScaleRadius, new MyScaleEngine);

class MyTransformation: public QwtScaleTransformation {
public:
  MyTransformation(Type type) : QwtScaleTransformation(type)  {};
  virtual double xForm(double x, double s1, double s2, double p1, double p2) const {
    if (type() == Log10) {
      return p1 + (p2 - p1) / log(s2 / s1) * log(x / s1);
    }
    else {
      if (x < s1) {
        x = 18100;
      }
      return p1 + (p2 - p1) / (s2 - s1) * (x - s1);
    }
  }
  virtual QwtScaleTransformation* copy() const {
    return new MyTransformation(QwtScaleTransformation::Linear);
  }
};


class MyScaleEngine: public QwtLinearScaleEngine {
  virtual QwtScaleTransformation* transformation() const {
    return new MyTransformation(QwtScaleTransformation::Linear);
  }
};

setScaleEngine(QwtPolar::ScaleRadius, new MyScaleEngine);

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[Uwe]

You need to devide p1-p2 into 2 intervals. Then map all values below your minimum ( sd ) linear into the first interval , all others in the second.

Something like this:

virtual double xForm(double x, double s1, double s2, double p1, double p2) const
{
    const double sd = ...;
    const double pd = p1 + 0.1 * ( p2 - p1 ); // 10% of the radius for the inactive part
 
    if ( x <= sd )
        return p1 + (pd - p1) / (sd - s1) * (x - s1); 
    else
        return pd + (p2 - pd) / (s2 - sd) * (x - sd); 
}

virtual double xForm(double x, double s1, double s2, double p1, double p2) const
{
    const double sd = ...;
    const double pd = p1 + 0.1 * ( p2 - p1 ); // 10% of the radius for the inactive part

    if ( x <= sd )
        return p1 + (pd - p1) / (sd - s1) * (x - s1); 
    else
        return pd + (p2 - pd) / (s2 - sd) * (x - sd); 
}

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HTH,
Uwe

[Galabis]

It works for me. Thanks a lot!