customPlot->legend->setVisible(true); customPlot->legend->setFont(QFont("Helvetica",9)); // set locale to english, so we get english decimal separator: customPlot->setLocale(QLocale(QLocale::English, QLocale::UnitedKingdom)); // add confidence band graphs: customPlot->addGraph(); QPen pen; pen.setStyle(Qt::DotLine); pen.setWidth(1); pen.setColor(QColor(180,180,180)); customPlot->graph(0)->setName("Confidence Band 68%"); customPlot->graph(0)->setPen(pen); customPlot->graph(0)->setBrush(QBrush(QColor(255,50,30,20))); customPlot->addGraph(); customPlot->legend->removeItem(customPlot->legend->itemCount()-1); // don't show two confidence band graphs in legend customPlot->graph(1)->setPen(pen); customPlot->graph(0)->setChannelFillGraph(customPlot->graph(1)); // add theory curve graph: customPlot->addGraph(); pen.setStyle(Qt::DashLine); pen.setWidth(2); pen.setColor(Qt::red); customPlot->graph(2)->setPen(pen); customPlot->graph(2)->setName("Theory Curve"); // add data point graph: customPlot->addGraph(); customPlot->graph(3)->setPen(QPen(Qt::blue)); customPlot->graph(3)->setLineStyle(QCPGraph::lsNone); customPlot->graph(3)->setScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle(QCPScatterStyle::ssCross, 4)); // add error bars: QCPErrorBars *errorBars = new QCPErrorBars(customPlot->xAxis, customPlot->yAxis); errorBars->removeFromLegend(); errorBars->setAntialiased(false); errorBars->setDataPlottable(customPlot->graph(3)); errorBars->setPen(QPen(QColor(180,180,180))); customPlot->graph(3)->setName("Measurement"); // generate ideal sinc curve data and some randomly perturbed data for scatter plot: QVector<double> x0(250), y0(250); QVector<double> yConfUpper(250), yConfLower(250); for (int i=0; i<250; ++i) { x0[i] = (i/249.0-0.5)*30+0.01; // by adding a small offset we make sure not do divide by zero in next code line y0[i] = qSin(x0[i])/x0[i]; // sinc function yConfUpper[i] = y0[i]+0.15; yConfLower[i] = y0[i]-0.15; x0[i] *= 1000; } QVector<double> x1(50), y1(50), y1err(50); for (int i=0; i<50; ++i) { // generate a gaussian distributed random number: double tmp1 = rand()/(double)RAND_MAX; double tmp2 = rand()/(double)RAND_MAX; double r = qSqrt(-2*qLn(tmp1))*qCos(2*M_PI*tmp2); // box-muller transform for gaussian distribution // set y1 to value of y0 plus a random gaussian pertubation: x1[i] = (i/50.0-0.5)*30+0.25; y1[i] = qSin(x1[i])/x1[i]+r*0.15; x1[i] *= 1000; y1err[i] = 0.15; } // pass data to graphs and let QCustomPlot determine the axes ranges so the whole thing is visible: customPlot->graph(0)->setData(x0, yConfUpper); customPlot->graph(1)->setData(x0, yConfLower); customPlot->graph(2)->setData(x0, y0); customPlot->graph(3)->setData(x1, y1); errorBars->setData(y1err); customPlot->graph(2)->rescaleAxes(); customPlot->graph(3)->rescaleAxes(true); // setup look of bottom tick labels: customPlot->xAxis->setTickLabelRotation(30); customPlot->xAxis->ticker()->setTickCount(9); customPlot->xAxis->setNumberFormat("ebc"); customPlot->xAxis->setNumberPrecision(1); customPlot->xAxis->moveRange(-10); // make top right axes clones of bottom left axes. Looks prettier: customPlot->axisRect()->setupFullAxesBox();