﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
4616	Array versus vector signals plotting behavior	Pierre Haessig <pierre.haessig@…>	Adeel Asghar	"I've discovered the neat new feature ""array plot""in the 1.12 branch (*). I didn't experience bugs so far, but got slightly frustrated when working with vectors signals. I call ""vector signals"" the kind of arrays, often of small dimension, where it makes no sense to make an array plot, only time domain plots. For example i_abc={ia, ib, ic}, the concatenation of three currents in a three phased electrical systems.

Behavior in 1.12: when a regular (time domain) plot tab is active, I expect that clicking on an array i_abc would plot all elements (ia, ib, ic). As of 1.12, it opens instead a new array plot windows. I find this confusing. Also, compared to 1.11, there is now one more click required to plot (ia, ib, ic), because one needs to expand the i_abc tree.

I propose instead that when clicking on an array ''when the active plot is a regular plot'', it simply selects/unselects all the array components to make a time domain plot.

One may argue that this diminishes the discoverability of the new ""array plot"" feature. One possible solution would be to add a Information popup when clicking on an array (with a text like ''""Do you know that you can use an array plot instead""'' .... with ""Don't show this message again"" checkbox).



(*) as a side note, I haven't seen this new feature advertised in the 1.12 release notes (https://openmodelica.org/newss/186-october-31-2017-openmodelica-1-12-0-released)"	enhancement	new	high	Future	OMPlot	v1.12.0			
