The following table lists the parameters in the Bar Charts view.

Parameters in the Bar Charts view

Command or option

Description

Options pane

Loads the Option pane settings that you saved with the Save command.

Saves the settings that you selected in the Options pane.

 

Resets the option settings in the Options pane to their defaults when you installed the application.

Chart Options

Chart Type

Determines how the application plots the data.

  • (Default) Column: Displays the data as columns extending from bottom to top.
  • Bar: Displays the data as bars extending from left to right.

Horizontal Grid Lines

Determines whether the bar chart displays horizontal grid lines and specifies the style of these lines.

  • (Default) None: Displays no horizontal grid lines on the bar chart.
  • Solid: Displays solid horizontal grid lines on the bar chart.
  • Dotted: Displays dotted horizontal grid lines on the bar chart.

Axis Options

X-Axis Title

Specifies the label for the x axis.

Default: The category selected from the Data Source list

Y-Axis Title

Specifies the label for the y axis.

Default: Count

Y-Axis Type

Specifies the axis type (scale) of the x axis.

  • (Default) Linear: Plots the data on a linear scale.
  • Log: Plots the data on a logarithmic scale.
  • Percent: Plots the data as a percentage of the number of items.

Axis Title Font

Opens the Font dialog box so that you can specify the font used to denote the labels of the x and y axes.

Default: 12-point Arial

Axis Scale Font

Opens the Font dialog box so that you can specify the font used to denote the scales of the x and y axes.

Default: 10-point Arial

Bar Options

Show Rotated Scale

Determines whether the scale labels along the x axis are slightly rotated to the right.

  • (Default) True: Rotates the scale labels.
  • False: Does not rotate the scale labels.

X-Axis Scale Angle

Specifies the angle between the label and the x axis for the labels when the Show Rotated Labels parameter is set to True.

Range: –90.0 through 90.0 degrees

Default: 30

Bar Display

Specifies the appearance of the columns or bars.

  • (Default) Flat: Displays them as flat rectangles.
  • Cylinder: Displays them as cylinders.
  • Embross: Displays them as three-dimensional rectangles.
  • LightToDark: Displays them as shaded rectangles.

Bar Width

Specifies the relative width of the columns.

Range: 0.1–1.0; default: 0.8

Show Amount

Determines whether the amount, or count of items, is displayed in the chart.

  • True: Displays the amount or count of items in the chart.
  • (Default) False: Does not the display the amount or count of items in the chart.

Show Percentage

Determines whether percentage values are displayed above the columns or to the right of the bars.

  • True: Displays them above the columns or to the right of the bars.
  • (Default) False: Does not display them above the columns or to the right of the bars.

Column Label

Opens the Font dialog box so that you can specify the font of the column labels that appear on top of the bars in the bar chart.

Default: 8-point Arial

Legend Options

Show Legend

Determines whether a legend appears and where it appears.

  • (Default) None: Does not display a legend.
  • Top: Displays a legend at the top of the bar chart.
  • Left: Displays a legend to the left of the bar chart.
  • Bottom: Displays a legend at the bottom of the bar chart.
  • Right: Displays a legend to the right of the bar chart.

Legend Font

Opens the Font dialog box so that you can specify the legend font.

Default: 8-point Arial

Series Options

 

Show Only Checked Items

Determines whether the chart is compiled from data in all result rows or only data in result rows marked by check marks.

  • True: Compiles the chart only from data in result rows marked by check marks.
  • (Default) False: Compiles the chart from data in all result rows.

Series Color

Specifies the color of the bars.

Default: CornflowerBlue

Data Source

Displays the result category to plot the data from. The categories are as follows: Protein Groups, Proteins, Peptide Groups, PSMs, or MS/MS Spectrum Info.