How Is the Mouse Used in Graph Applications?
In addition to the standard Windows mouse conventions for selecting objects, the mouse can be used in many more specialized applications in the graphics window in STATISTICA. The following is a list of representative examples: OLE. Links or embeds foreign document files to STATISTICA documents by dragging them directly from the desktop or Windows Explorer (across application windows) and dropping them onto STATISTICA Graphs. Brushing. Highlights data points from the graph by clicking on them with the brushing tool or selecting them with a Box, Lasso, Cube, or a 2D or 3D Slice. Zoom in and zoom out tools. Zooms in (“magnifies”) or zooms out (“shrinks”), respectively, the selected area of the graph. Drawing tools. Adds rectangles, ovals (or circles), polylines and freehand drawings, arrows, etc. to a graph. Resizing and moving. Resizes (drag on a “black selection square”) or moves (drag the entire object) selected graph objects. Editing polyline objects. Reshapes individual segments of t
