Glossary
¥ Annotation - a graphical element
appended to a chart. Chartsmith offers four annotation types: Text, Line, Box
and Circle.
¥ Axis - the boundaries of the Grid that
are used to measure and label the chart series. The Y Axis can be positioned on
the left(Y1), right(Y2) or both the left and right(Both).
¥ Background - the back drop of a chart,
which is always drawn behind all other chart components.
¥ Border - the frame around the boundary
of the chart.
¥ Chart - a graphical display of numerical
data.
¥ Chart Title - text annotations in a
chart that have special meaning. They cannot be deleted but can be hidden.
¥ Chart View - the scroll view in the
Chart Window where a chart is displayed and its components can be manipulated.
¥ Chart Window - the primary window in the
Chartsmith user interface , it contains the Chart View and Navigator.
¥ Column Header - in the Data View, the
region above the series label where the series type icon is displayed.
¥ Color Previewing - a feature that allows
you to view the effect of a dragged color before the color is actually dropped;
all chart components can be color previewed by alt-dragging color swatches to
the Chart View from a color panel.
¥ Data Element - the components of a
series; each data element corresponds with a row in the Data View.
¥ Data Fill - a feature that produces
textual and numeric sequences based on basic parameters that are provided by
the user; used to fill the labels and data cells of the Data View.
¥ Data View - a table provided to define a
chart's series, label the series and data elements, and enter and display data;
all submenu items in the Data View menu apply to the Data View.
¥ Data View Window - contains the Data
View, the Chart Attributes Box and the Series Palette.
¥ Drag and Drop - the act of using the
mouse to drag item on screen from one location to another, e.g. the mouse can
be used to drag and drop an image file from the Workspace onto the Chart View
to set the background image.
¥ Excel Ð the spreadsheet application
authored by the Microsoft Corporation
¥ Gradient - the color filling of a region
using a pattern that transforms from one color to another color.
¥ Grid - the "graph paper" used
to plot all series of the Bar/Line and XY families. A grid includes the x- and
y-axis, the major and minor lines, the axis labels and the tick labels. Pie
Series have no grid.
¥ Inspector Panel - a panel providing controls
to change or set many of the attributes of individual chart components. Often referred
to simply as the Inspector.
¥ Legend - the key used to identify the
series within a chart; In the case of Pie charts, the legend identifies the
slices within the pies. All charts contain legends.
¥ Major Grid Line - the horizontal and
vertical lines in the Grid's mesh of perpendicular lines that correspond to
numeric increments of the step value.
¥ Minor Grid Line - the horizontal and
vertical lines in the Grid's mesh of perpendicular lines that divide the spaces
between the major grid lines.
¥ Navigator - the scroll view in the Chart
Window that provides access to all charts in a given document; charts are
represented in the Navigator by thumbnail images.
¥ Normalize - to size and reposition all
chart components based on the size of the chart.
¥ Paste Special - a category of pasting to
the Data View that provides options for the paste content and delimiter type.
¥ Series - the graphical format that a
data set takes on when displayed in a chart. In Chartsmith, every series has a
series column (in the Data View) and a graphical series (in the chart).
¥ Series Columns - columns of data storage
found in the Data View; each series column has a corresponding series in the
chart; the header of the series column displays its series type; a series
column can have subcolumns, such as the Hi-Lo and XY series.
¥ Series Palette - the view in the Data
View Window that displays the icons for the available series for the current
chart type.
¥ Shortcut Buttons - three buttons found
on the Chart Window that access the tools otherwise found in the Tools menu.
¥ Template - a collection of chart
attributes that can be stored as a file in the Workspace and later applied to
any number of charts to format them according to these attributes.
¥ Thumbnail - the tiny image that is
intended to show the general makeup of a chart; thumbnail images are used in
the Navigator and in the Template Selector.
¥ Tick Label - a label that corresponds to
the value associated with the major grid line at the label location; tick
labels may or may not have a corresponding tick mark.
¥ Tick Mark - a small line perpendicular
to and extending beyond a Grid axis; intended to highlight the location of a
major or minor line; tick marks may or may not have a corresponding tick label.
¥ Trend Ð a feature of a data series that
displays the mathematical trend line established by the data in the series.
¥ Y1 or Y2 axis - the grid can have a Y
axis positioned on the left (Y1), on the right (Y2) or on both the left and
right (Both).