We experienced problems with xwinnmr3.1 upgrade, where Bruker replaced the
plot button with autoplot. Bigger changes are needed in iconnmr3.1 setup -
you need to create a bunch of xwp templates or modify the au programs, and
thus the change in all related par files (quite some work!). Also autoplot
does not work with network printers (edo has no effect - plot always goes to
default printer). I share Jim's opinion that we like the old plot command
better. If Bruker wants to improve things please do not take the old
functionality away (!) if all possible.
Best Regards to all,
Jiejun
Jiejun Wu, Ph.D
J&J Pharmaceutical Research and Development
3210 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CA 92121-1126
(858) 784-3212 tel, (858) 450-2049 fax
JWU7@PRDUS.JNJ.COM
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Bloxsidge [mailto:j.bloxsidge@surrey.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:55 AM
To: BUM
Subject: XWin-Plot versus "plot"
Dear XWin-NMR users,
at the recent UK Bruker Users' Meeting, it became clear that quite a lot of
users did NOT consider XWin-Plot, in its present form at least, to be a
full and satisfactory replacement for the older "plot" function in XWin-NMR.
Mike Engelhardt said that he could not understand this. He felt that
XWin-Plot provided all the functionality of "plot" and more and that the
"plot" function was no longer needed. He asked for users to report their
problems with XWin-Plot, so that he could sort them out.
I have, so far, suggested to him that:
There is no proper "help" routine. The "help" links simply jump you into
the .pdf manual and that manual is out of date and (seriously) lacks detail.
Layout parameters can only be modified by poking around among the twigs of
the edit trees, without direct keyboard entry.
AUTOPLOT and "xwp", while they offer some useful functionality, are
insufficiently flexible. (Horizontal and Vertical scaling operations,
projections etc.)
As Bruker are not implementing "plot" in the Linux version of XWin-NMR and
do not intend to include it in future versions of the Windows version, we
need an XWin-Plot that is easier to learn and simpler to use. Please put
your observations on BUM, with copies to Mike Engelhardt.
Jim Bloxsidge.
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