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Settings used when a chart is displayed live

In brief

If you specify that a chart should be displayed live during tests, then on the chart's settings page, you will be able to set the following options:

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Whether to show the real-time value on the chart

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The default x-axis width

Showing the real-time value

When this option is selected, the actual value being plotted is shown on the graph as in figure 1, below.

Figure 1. When a chart is displayed live, you can choose to have the real-time value of the data shown on the chart's surface.

When a chart is displaying a value, such as a speed or a distance, then it is this value that is shown on the chart (as in figure 1). When a chart is displaying a state, such as whether the animal is in a zone or not, then the state's COUNT is shown on the graph - so this would show how many times the animal has entered the zone.

The default x-axis width

By default, ANY-maze will set the width of the x-axis of a 'live' chart to the programmed duration of the test. If you wish, you can change this to some other value, simply by entering the width in this field. The value you enter should be a period of time using units of s (seconds), min (minutes), or h (hours). Leave the field blank for ANY-maze to use its default.

Note that this value is the default width for the x-axis; you can always adjust the width dynamically to some other value while the test is running.

ANY-maze help topic T0667