ASAP plotter

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8.3.9.1 ASAP plotter

The ASAP plotter uses the same Python matplotlib library as in CASA (for x-y plots). It is accessed via the:

sd.plotter<TAB> # see all functions (omitted here)
sd.plotter.plot(scans) # the workhorse function
sd.plotter.set<TAB>
sd.plotter.set_abcissa     sd.plotter.set_layout      sd.plotter.set_panelling
sd.plotter.set_colors      sd.plotter.set_legend      sd.plotter.set_range
sd.plotter.set_colours     sd.plotter.set_linestyles  sd.plotter.set_selection
sd.plotter.set_data        sd.plotter.set_mask        sd.plotter.set_stacking
sd.plotter.set_font        sd.plotter.set_mode        sd.plotter.set_title

Spectra can be plotted at any time when refresh = True (default) is selected, and it will attempt to do the correct layout depending on whether it is a set of scans or a single scan. You can switch off verbose plotting by refresh = False in tool parameters for faster plotting in scripts:

sd.plotter.set_data(scan,refresh=False)  # set scantable to plot
                                        # this should be done at first.
sd.plotter.set_mode(stacking=’time’,panelling=’if’,refresh=False)
sd.plotter.set_range(ystart=-1.0,yend=5.0,refresh=False)
sd.plotter.plot()                         # actual plotting

The details of the plotter display (matplotlib) are detailed in the earlier section.

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