Curve display order

[jsc]

David,

I did look through the help, but may have missed this...

Is there a way to select the order in which the curves are plotted in the display, ie, like a layer order, without changing the curve order? There are times when I don't want to disturb the curve order, because of calculations I may make on the curves, but I would sometimes like to be able to bring a curve out of the background.

Looks like DPlot layers curves first to last, with the last curve on top.

If it doesn't exist now, might it be a consideration for the future?

And yes, I can envision some messiness with this!

Thanks.

[DPlotAdmin]

Jon,
No, no way to do that at present.

Easy enough to do and not all that messy, with one big exception: I don't see a good way to add this functionality without changing the behavior of the Move Up/Move Down right-click commands on the legend so that those effect the legend only. The reverse problem applies to the View>Reorder Curves menu command, which would necessarily only apply to the drawing order and not the legend. So what you end up with (for everybody who is happy with the current arrangement) is forcing them to reorder things twice. To get around this requires some sort of global setting like "Move means move everything", and I suppose that would do the trick.

I'll have to think on this one some.

[jsc]

Thanks for thinking about it. It seems messy, because whatever options you decide on, someone will think of another one.

And it seems messy, because if you have some text placeholders specifying a certain curve, the placeholder doesn't know you reordered the curve. And you may or may not want those to change with curve order or layer order.

But thanks again.

Jon

[DPlotAdmin]

It seems messy, because whatever options you decide on, someone will think of another one.

Well, yeah, but it's not like that's anything new!

I think this can be done w/o too much confusion if the legend right-click commands are applied to the legend only, and I add a checkbox to "Reorder Curves" to use the same order for the legend. "I think" usually gets me into all sorts of trouble , but I'll definitely look into it. This won't make it into the next release, which is coming... real soon now.

Thanks as always for the suggestion.