About PlotLab

What can I build with PlotLab?

 

PlotLab is a set of very fast data plotting / charting / graphing components.  Add sophisticated interactive graphs, charts, plots, and waterfalls to your VB.NET, C#, Visual C++, Delphi and C++ Builder applications with minimal effort.

 

Applications include:  real time data acquisition, signal analysis, digital signal analysis, video analysis, data visualization and more.

 
 
The library includes a Chart-like Plot component (Scope), a Waterfall component and a Multi Waterfall component.
 
 
The Scope Control is a very fast multichannel plot / graph / chart component that can plot the data in logarithmic or linear modes:
 

 

 

The Waterfall Control is a very fast single channel Waterfall plotting component:

The Multi Waterfall Control is a very fast multi channel Waterfall plotting component:

PlotLab: for fast data plotting, charting and visulation application with almost zero lines of code!

Our component libraries come in 3 versions a VCL – Firemonkey version (for Delphi / C++ Builder / RAD Studio XE4 to 10.1 Berlin), an MFC compatible Visual C++ version, and a .NET 2.0 and 4.0 (4.5 and 4.6 compatible) supporting Visual Studio 2005 to 2015.
 
The RAD Studio version is a set of native VCL and Firemonkey components of which all include now the powerful Mitov Runtime.
 
The Visual C++ version is a set of native Visual C++ classes (components).
 
The NET 2.0 and 4.0 (4.5 and 4.6 compatible) version is a set of managed .NET components.  The .NET version has the same performance as the native versions, and supports all the Microsoft .NET languages including Visual Basic, C#, J#, F# and C++/CLI.
 
Due to the unique architecture of the OpenWire platform, the components are implemented the same way in Managed .NET and native Windows (32 and 64 bit) environments. The code to control a component from VB.NET, C++/CLI, C#, and J#, Visual C++ MFC, Delphi, and C++ Builder is almost identical. This allows the developers to migrate and share code between the different environments thus significantly improving the productivity.
 
OpenWire Libraries: for fast, complex data stream processing with almost zero lines of code!

 

Scope Control features:

Channels:

  • Display multiple channels as lines, points or bars
  • Custom draw channels

Toolbar:

  • Hold/Resume the screen update
  • Zooming – Auto, In/Out, Undo/Redo
  • Save to Bitmap or JPEG
  • Print
  • Copy
  • Setup

Interactive legend:

Channel markers:

  • Identify and Setup easily the channels, markers, cursors, selections, and measurements.
  • Highlight important points on the channels with custom labels.

Measurement:

  • Measure distances.

Intersections:

  • Show horizontal and vertical intersections between cursors and channels

Selections:

Selection  SelectionH  SelectionC

  • Select and highlight horizontal vertical areas or square regions.

Waterfall Controls features:

Toolbar:

  • Hold/Resume the screen update
  • Zooming – Auto, In/Out, Undo/Redo
  • Save to Bitmap or JPEG
  • Print
  • Copy
  • Setup

Interactive legend:

  • Identify and Setup easily the markers.

Markers:

  • Use markers to highlight important pints.

Converters

SLPair SLPair Pairs multiple data buffers together

Custom Filters

SLGenericReal SLGenericReal User defined filter for Real data
SLGenericFilter SLGenericFilter User defined filter for Binary data
SLGenericRealMatrix SLGenericRealMatrix User defined generator for Real matrix data

Generic Filters

SLGenericReal SLGenericReal User defined filter for Real data
SLGenericFilter SLGenericFilter User defined filter for Binary data
SLGenericRealMatrix SLGenericRealMatrix User defined generator for Real matrix data

Generic Generators

SLGenericGen SLGenericGen User defined generator for Binary data
SLGenericRealGen SLGenericRealGen User defined generator for Real data

Signal Filters

SLGenericReal SLGenericReal User defined filter for Real data
SLGenericFilter SLGenericFilter User defined filter for Binary data
SLGenericRealMatrix SLGenericRealMatrix User defined generator for Real matrix data

Signal Generators

SLGenericGen SLGenericGen User defined generator for Binary data
SLGenericRealGen SLGenericRealGen User defined generator for Real data

Timing components

TLWatchDogTimer TLWatchDogTimer Implements a Watch Dog Timer.
TLMainThredEvent TLMainThredEvent Allows other threads to generate main thread notifications.
TLClockGen TLClockGen Provides clock for other components.
TLThreadEvent TLThreadEvent Use this component to execute code in a separated thread
TLStopWatch TLStopWatch Use this component to implement a Stop Watch
TLFrequencyMeter TLFrequencyMeter Use this component to implement a Frequency meter
TLCounter TLCounter Use this component to implement a Counter

Visualization

SLScope SLScope Visible Scope/Plot component for representing floating point data
SLWaterfall SLWaterfall Visible waterfall for representing Real(double) data
PLMultiWaterfall PLMultiWaterfall Visible multi-channel waterfall for representing Real(double) data.

Video Layers

SLScopeLayer SLScopeLayer A scope drawing layer.  You can add this layer to any drawing component such as TVLDraw to render a video layer containing a scope
SLWaterfallLayer SLWaterfallLayer A waterfall draw layer.  You can add this layer to any drawing component such as TVLDraw to render a video layer containing a waterfall
PLMultiWaterfallLayer PLMultiWaterfallLayer A multi channel waterfall draw layer. You can add this layer to any drawing component such as TVLDraw to render a video layer containing a multi channel waterfall

Matrix Layers

SLExternalScopeMatrixLayer SLExternalScopeMatrixLayer A scope matrix component layer
SLExternalWaterfallMatrixLayer SLExternalWaterfallMatrixLayer A waterfall matrix component layer
PLExternalMultiWaterfallMatrixLayer PLExternalMultiWaterfallMatrixLayer A waterfall matrix component layer.

Control Element

SLExternalScopeElement SLExternalScopeElement A scope component element
SLExternalWaterfallElement SLExternalWaterfallElement A waterfall component element
PLExternalMultiWaterfallElement PLExternalMultiWaterfallElement A scope component element.

 

OpenWire Studio: What’s New

New in Version 7.8.0.0 (released on 2016-05-03)

  1. Added RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin support
  2. Removed the old .NET 2.0 Assemblies
  3. Added initial MAC support
  4. Added Visual Live Binding property editors
  5. Added Reset to Default property editors
  6. Added Enum property editors
  7. Added Class events property editors
  8. Added Multi-Event property editors

New in Version 7.7.0.0 (released on 2015-10-28)

  1. Added 10 Seattle support
  2. Added support for VS2015
  3. Added TOWBoolToIntFormatConverter
  4. Improved threading support
  5. Improved OpenWire Editor
  6. Clock pins changed to MiltiSink
  7. Improved Design Time Editors
  8. Improved JSON support
  9. Improved collections
  10. Added more Live Binding types
  11. Added support for hosting OpenWire Studio projects
  12. Added serialization support in the buffers
 

New in Version 7.6.0.0 (released on 2015-04-17)

  1. Added TTLGenericFilter
  2. Added more visual live binding types
  3. Significantly improved property Delphi editors
  4. Added MeasurementLine custom label event

New in Version 7.5.1.0 (released on 2014-12-20)

  1. Improved .NET support
  2. Enchanced OpenWire Editor
  3. Added custom toolbar buttons, and images
  4. Added more visual live bindings
  5. Added custom Width for the display cursors

 

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PlotLab EXAMPLES

 

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PlotLab FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do I have to purchase PlotLab?

PlotLab is free for non commercial purposes. This means that you can use it for personal pleasure, hobby, or evaluation purposes. If you are student you can also use it for free for your educational needs including school projects. If you are a tutor at present you also can use it for free for your classes. However in the near future a low cost tutor license will be available, and you will have to purchase it. Your students however will not need license to use the product at class.

Is PlotLab multithreading? Will it stop processing the data while I move the window with the mouse?

Yes. PlotLab is fully multithreaded and will not stop processing the data while the main thread is busy.

Does PlotLab require any DLLs to work?

If you are using Delphi or C++ Builder, PlotLab does not require any DLLs to work. You can create monolithic executable that contains all that is needed. If you are using Visual C++, with the current version you will have to use the PlotLab DLL files.

 

 

PlotLab INSTALLERS

Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.8.2.288 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio

Updated on 2018-12-21, downloaded 115 times.

Visual C++ Installer: PlotLab 7.8.2.152 for Visual C++ MFC

Updated on 2018-11-12, downloaded 12850 times.

.NET Installer: PlotLab 7.8.2.271 for Microsoft .NET 4.0 (4.5 and 4.6 compatible)

Updated on 2018-11-08, downloaded 14185 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.8.2.0 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for XE8 to 10.1 Berlin

Updated on 2016-06-07, downloaded 1723 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.7.0.0 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for XE7 to 10 Seattle

Updated on 2015-10-28, downloaded 775 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.6.1.0 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for XE6 to XE8

Updated on 2015-06-11, downloaded 818 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.5.0.0 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for XE4 to XE7

Updated on 2014-11-18, downloaded 24065 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 7.0.0.0 VCL and FireMonkey 32 & 64 bit support for XE3 to XE6

Updated on 2014-04-22, downloaded 732 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 6.0.0 VCL and FireMonkey (Windows only) 32 and 64 bit support for XE2 to XE4

Updated on 2013-06-13, downloaded 1137 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 5.0.3 VCL and FireMonkey for XE2 Update4 Hotfix1

Updated on 2012-10-13, downloaded 705 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: Legacy PlotLab 5.0.3 VCL and FireMonkey (Windows only) 32 and 64 bit support for 2010 to XE

Updated on 2012-10-10, downloaded 3254 times.

Legacy Firemonkey and VCL Installer: PlotLab 5.0.1 for Delphi/C++ Builder 5 to 2009

Updated on 2011-10-18, downloaded 16968 times.

DEMOS

These demos are executable after downloading.   Also see: Demo source code downloads

Advanced Scope demo Illustrates many advanced scope feature

Date Display Scope demo Demonstrates using dates to govern the X-Axis

Large Data Scope demo Shows how to load a large data file into a scope

Multi Axes Scope demo Demonstrates using different X and Y axis scales for differnet channels

Scrolling Scope demo Illustrates how to scroll signal input across the scope as it arrives

Simple Waterfall demo Shows how to use TSLWaterfall component

Simple MultiWaterfall demo Demonstrates and RGB Histogram Waterfall plot

Simple Scope demo Shows how to use TSLScope component to display a simple signal

XYScope demo Demonstrates plotting Y vs. X values over time

 

Mitov License

 

If you do not have a custom licensing agreement with Mitov Software then the following license applies:
 
The libraries are licensed per developer, and there are no royalties required. Once you have purchased a developer license, you are free to distribute your final product without the need to pay any royalties or other fees as long as you comply with the following license agreement:
 
 
LICENSE – AGREEMENT
 
Users of the LabPacks Component Pack(Software) must accept these terms of license.
 
If you refuse to accept the terms of license, you may not use this software, and you have the right to return it within 30 days of the purchase date, and to receive your money back.
 
For your convenience a copy of this license agreement will be stored on your system during the installation.
 
This license grants you the following rights:
 
You have a non exclusive license to the Software. The Title and all intangible rights to the Software are the property of Mitov Software .
 
You may install and use one copy of the Software per computer assuming only one and the same person will use the Software on all of the computers. You may distribute any application that includes Software without any additional royalties beyond your initial license registration fee.
 
You can also create a reasonable set of copies of the product on different types of media, such as CD Rom or Type Backup, as far as those copies are used only for your own back up protection.
 
Description of the limitations.
 
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software.
 
The Software is licensed as a single product. You may not rent or lease the Software. You must treat the Software like any other copyrighted material except that you may either (a) a reasonable amount of copies of the Software solely for backup or archival purposes, or (b) install the Software multiple computers provided you keep the original solely for backup or archival purposes and only a single developer will use all of the copies.
 
You may not separate Delphi and C++ Builder components from this Software.
Each developer must have a valid license for the Software.
 
You may not create a competing component product using this Software.
 
Additional restriction to Delphi-VCL and C++ Builder components:
 
You may not distribute the Delphi-VCL components in a DCU (Delphi Compiled Unit) format. You can distribute the component only as a part of your executable or dynamic link library program in a compiled form.
 
You may not distribute the C++ Builder components in OBJ format. You can distribute the component only as a part of your executable or dynamic link library program in a compiled form.
 
 
Mitov Software grants a limited warranty with these restrictions:
 
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Also, we offer custom licensing and vertical development of the PlotLab.  Please direct any questions about custom licensing to Boian Mitov ( mitov@mitov.com ).

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