Plot Screenshots: Multiple Axes Demo

 

  customPlot->setLocale(QLocale(QLocale::English, QLocale::UnitedKingdom)); // period as decimal separator and comma as thousand separator
  customPlot->legend->setVisible(true);
  QFont legendFont = font();  // start out with MainWindow's font..
  legendFont.setPointSize(9); // and make a bit smaller for legend
  customPlot->legend->setFont(legendFont);
  customPlot->legend->setBrush(QBrush(QColor(255,255,255,230)));
  // by default, the legend is in the inset layout of the main axis rect. So this is how we access it to change legend placement:
  customPlot->axisRect()->insetLayout()->setInsetAlignment(0, Qt::AlignBottom|Qt::AlignRight);
  
  // setup for graph 0: key axis left, value axis bottom
  // will contain left maxwell-like function
  customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->yAxis, customPlot->xAxis);
  customPlot->graph(0)->setPen(QPen(QColor(255, 100, 0)));
  customPlot->graph(0)->setBrush(QBrush(QPixmap("./balboa.jpg"))); // fill with texture of specified image
  customPlot->graph(0)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsLine);
  customPlot->graph(0)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssDisc, 5));
  customPlot->graph(0)->setName("Left maxwell function");
  
  // setup for graph 1: key axis bottom, value axis left (those are the default axes)
  // will contain bottom maxwell-like function with error bars
  customPlot->addGraph();
  customPlot->graph(1)->setPen(QPen(Qt::red));
  customPlot->graph(1)->setBrush(QBrush(QPixmap("./balboa.jpg"))); // same fill as we used for graph 0
  customPlot->graph(1)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsStepCenter);
  customPlot->graph(1)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssCircle, Qt::red, Qt::white, 7));
  customPlot->graph(1)->setName("Bottom maxwell function");
  QCPErrorBars *errorBars = new QCPErrorBars(customPlot->xAxis, customPlot->yAxis);
  errorBars->removeFromLegend();
  errorBars->setDataPlottable(customPlot->graph(1));
  
  // setup for graph 2: key axis top, value axis right
  // will contain high frequency sine with low frequency beating:
  customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->xAxis2, customPlot->yAxis2);
  customPlot->graph(2)->setPen(QPen(Qt::blue));
  customPlot->graph(2)->setName("High frequency sine");
  
  // setup for graph 3: same axes as graph 2
  // will contain low frequency beating envelope of graph 2
  customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->xAxis2, customPlot->yAxis2);
  QPen blueDotPen;
  blueDotPen.setColor(QColor(30, 40, 255, 150));
  blueDotPen.setStyle(Qt::DotLine);
  blueDotPen.setWidthF(4);
  customPlot->graph(3)->setPen(blueDotPen);
  customPlot->graph(3)->setName("Sine envelope");
  
  // setup for graph 4: key axis right, value axis top
  // will contain parabolically distributed data points with some random perturbance
  customPlot->addGraph(customPlot->yAxis2, customPlot->xAxis2);
  customPlot->graph(4)->setPen(QColor(50, 50, 50, 255));
  customPlot->graph(4)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsNone);
  customPlot->graph(4)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssCircle, 4));
  customPlot->graph(4)->setName("Some random data around\na quadratic function");
  
  // generate data, just playing with numbers, not much to learn here:
  QVector<double> x0(25), y0(25);
  QVector<double> x1(15), y1(15), y1err(15);
  QVector<double> x2(250), y2(250);
  QVector<double> x3(250), y3(250);
  QVector<double> x4(250), y4(250);
  for (int i=0; i<25; ++i) // data for graph 0
  {
    x0[i] = 3*i/25.0;
    y0[i] = qExp(-x0[i]*x0[i]*0.8)*(x0[i]*x0[i]+x0[i]);
  }
  for (int i=0; i<15; ++i) // data for graph 1
  {
    x1[i] = 3*i/15.0;;
    y1[i] = qExp(-x1[i]*x1[i])*(x1[i]*x1[i])*2.6;
    y1err[i] = y1[i]*0.25;
  }
  for (int i=0; i<250; ++i) // data for graphs 2, 3 and 4
  {
    x2[i] = i/250.0*3*M_PI;
    x3[i] = x2[i];
    x4[i] = i/250.0*100-50;
    y2[i] = qSin(x2[i]*12)*qCos(x2[i])*10;
    y3[i] = qCos(x3[i])*10;
    y4[i] = 0.01*x4[i]*x4[i] + 1.5*(rand()/(double)RAND_MAX-0.5) + 1.5*M_PI;
  }
  
  // pass data points to graphs:
  customPlot->graph(0)->setData(x0, y0);
  customPlot->graph(1)->setData(x1, y1);
  errorBars->setData(y1err);
  customPlot->graph(2)->setData(x2, y2);
  customPlot->graph(3)->setData(x3, y3);
  customPlot->graph(4)->setData(x4, y4);
  // activate top and right axes, which are invisible by default:
  customPlot->xAxis2->setVisible(true);
  customPlot->yAxis2->setVisible(true);
  // set ranges appropriate to show data:
  customPlot->xAxis->setRange(0, 2.7);
  customPlot->yAxis->setRange(0, 2.6);
  customPlot->xAxis2->setRange(0, 3.0*M_PI);
  customPlot->yAxis2->setRange(-70, 35);
  // set pi ticks on top axis:
  customPlot->xAxis2->setTicker(QSharedPointer<QCPAxisTickerPi>(new QCPAxisTickerPi));
  // add title layout element:
  customPlot->plotLayout()->insertRow(0);
  customPlot->plotLayout()->addElement(0, 0, new QCPTextElement(customPlot, "Way too many graphs in one plot", QFont("sans", 12, QFont::Bold)));
  // set labels:
  customPlot->xAxis->setLabel("Bottom axis with outward ticks");
  customPlot->yAxis->setLabel("Left axis label");
  customPlot->xAxis2->setLabel("Top axis label");
  customPlot->yAxis2->setLabel("Right axis label");
  // make ticks on bottom axis go outward:
  customPlot->xAxis->setTickLength(0, 5);
  customPlot->xAxis->setSubTickLength(0, 3);
  // make ticks on right axis go inward and outward:
  customPlot->yAxis2->setTickLength(3, 3);
  customPlot->yAxis2->setSubTickLength(1, 1);