RtPlot - Real Time Plotting Uitility

RtPlot is a small program for displaying 2D plots in real time. It consumes little resources. It was written because of the need to monitor the progress of computationally intensive scientific programs which run for a long time and occasionally produce output suitable for plotting. The user can open as many windows as needed for plotting. Each window can monitor several data files and plot their contents. When a data file is updated by another concurrently running program, its plot is automatically updated as well. It is also possible to view in a window several recent updates to a data file. The user can configure the frequency in which RtPlot checks for file updates, stop or renew the updating of plots, the range of x & y columns, number of ticks along axes and other parameters. Configurations can be made with the mouse, command line or XML configuration files. Each plot can be printed or saved in BMP/PNG formats either manually or when the display is updated.

At a glance...

• Runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.

• Works under linux with Wine (Tested under version 1.0.1).

• Display in a window updated when data file is updated on disk.

• Each window can monitor several data files.

• Uses Multiple Document Interface (MDI), user can open as many windows as needed under a single workspace area.

• Display in each plotting window can be frozen or an update forced.

• Auto x-axis scrolling.

• X-axis scrollbar.

• User configurable:
  • Frequency of checking file updates on disk.
  • Range of x & y axes.
  • Number of "ticks" along x & y axes.
  • Line style & color.
  • Size of points in display.

• Can displays most recent updates for each curve.

• Context menus.

• Can read/write XML configuration files.

• User can drag plot with mouse, so various parts of the plots may be examined.

• Supports box-style plots

• Plots can be saved in BMP/PNG formats either manually or when updated.

• Can display real time on x-axis.

• Small, consumes little system resources.

• Freeware - Download version 0.68 from this site or from simtel.net.

• Download update version 0.67.1.6.

• Download update version 0.68.0.3.

Documentation

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