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Mustafa Kizilcay
Fachhochschule Osnabrck, Germany
FB Elektrotechnik
Albrechtstr. 30
D-49076 Osnabrck, Germany
Fax phone +49 541 969-3070
Email: m.kizilcay@fh-osnabrueck.de
Deniz Celikag
TECAN Software GmbH
Groer Kolonnenweg 23
D-30179 Hannover, Germany
Email: dcelikag@aol.com
Introduction
The first version of PCPLOT running under MS-DOS was created by Prof. Kizilcay during his
research assistant time at the University of Hanover and disclosed to ATP-EMTP community in
1988. In the last 9 years it has been steadily developed and improved until 1997. The last version
distributed was 6.51. In 1997 the author decided to stop the development and maintenance of
DOS version of PCPLOT taking into consideration the requirement for a Windows graphical
output program for ATP-EMTP expressed by EEUG members.
Executive Board of the EEUG has decided in 1997 to support the adaptation of PCPLOT, which
was written in Borland's Turbo Pascal originally to MS-Windows using Borland Delphi. Delphi
as an powerful Windows application development tool is based on programming language Turbo
Pascal. ATPDRAW for Windows was also created using Delphi.
Due to different developmental environments (text based MS DOS versus graphic based MS
Windows) only small part of the code dealing with the numerical processing of data could be
adapted directly into Windows version. Graphical user interface (GUI) including screen output
of diagrams had to be completely rewritten. It has been decided to support only 32-bit version
running under Windows 95 and NT.
The first version 1.0 of PCPLOT for Windows has been distributed officially this year to the
EEUG members with the diskettes of Watcom ATP-EMTP for Windows 95/NT.
Installation
PCPLOT for Windows is currently distributed as part of Watcom ATP-EMTP, so that the
program will be automatically installed by executing SETUP.EXE under Windows 95/NT. Next
release of Watcom ATP-EMTP contains a custom installation procedure, i.e. the user is
allowed to select the components to be installed individually.
Following three files are required to execute PCPLOT program:
PCPlot for Windows 95/98/NT
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WPCPLOT.EXE
WPCPLOT.HLP
WPCPLOT.CNT
Manual installation is simple, i.e. copy these three files into a directory and create a short-cut to
WPCPLOT.EXE under Windows 95/NT. Since PCPLOT is a true 32-bit program, it does not
execute under MS Windows 3.x.
The maximum size of PL4 files to be processed depends on the available resources allocated for
Windows (RAM plus swapping space on hard disk).
Features
The most important feature of PCPLOT for Windows compared to DOS version is surely
extensive support of mouse. The other features are described briefly in the following subsections
illustrated using screen hardcopies. The authors feel that there is no need for a program manual
this article should be entirely sufficient to understand and work with PCPLOT , because
program handling is similar to old DOS version of PCPLOT and the user will be directed by
allowing him/her certain actions to perform at each program stage. The help function is contextbased, i.e. pressing F1 key pops up a help window with respect to already performed action.
This is binary PL4 file created by "Salford ATP" and/or "Watcom ATP", when
L4BYTE=1 and FMTPL4 is blank in STARTUP.
Formatted
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Variables can be plotted against time or frequency (in case of FREQUENCY SCAN
computation) or they can be plotted against another variable, which will constitute x-axis and
will be marked by x in the right-top window of selected variables. The title bar of the window
Selected Curves shows the creation date of the plot file.
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In the second phase of program development some of the features, which will be implemented in
PCPLOT for Windows are:
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