Add a control

Controls are the display and control elements a workspace is made of. QInsight ships six basic ones: Graph (signal time course), XY Graph (signal versus signal), Gauge (a radial/linear indicator), Single-Signal (a single value with a caption), Watch Table (a table of variables), and Matrix (array/curve/map with cell editing). Controls are plugins (the Controls folder next to QInsight.exe), so the set can be extended with custom elements.

Steps

1. Open the Controls panel (docked on the left).
2. Drag & drop the desired control onto the workspace.
3. Grab the control to move it; resize it by its edges. Placement is helped by a grid (snap to grid).

Control settings

Each control has its own settings available directly on it (expandable sections) — e.g. the time window and axes on a graph, the range and thresholds on a gauge. Common properties: position, size, background/foreground colors, and font size.

Via the context menu, a control can be locked — a locked control cannot be accidentally moved, resized, or deleted.

Next

The control does not show anything yet — it needs to be bound to a variable.