time_sink_c.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_QTGUI_TIME_SINK_C_H
#define INCLUDED_QTGUI_TIME_SINK_C_H

#ifdef ENABLE_PYTHON
#include <Python.h>
#endif

#include <gnuradio/qtgui/api.h>
#include <gnuradio/qtgui/trigger_mode.h>
#include <gnuradio/sync_block.h>
#include <qapplication.h>

namespace gr {
  namespace qtgui {

    /*!
     * \brief A graphical sink to display multiple signals in time.
     * \ingroup instrumentation_blk
     * \ingroup qtgui_blk
     *
     * \details
     * This is a QT-based graphical sink the takes set of a complex
     * streams and plots them in the time domain. For each signal, both
     * the signal's I and Q parts are plotted, and they are all plotted
     * with a different color, and the \a set_title and \a set_color
     * functions can be used to change the lable and color for a given
     * input number.
     */
    class QTGUI_API time_sink_c : virtual public sync_block
    {
    public:
      // gr::qtgui::time_sink_c::sptr
      typedef boost::shared_ptr<time_sink_c> sptr;

      /*!
       * \brief Build complex time sink
       *
       * \param size number of points to plot at once
       * \param samp_rate sample rate (used to set x-axis labels)
       * \param name title for the plot
       * \param nconnections number of signals connected to sink
       * \param parent a QWidget parent object, if any
       */
      static sptr make(int size, double samp_rate,
                       const std::string &name,
                       int nconnections=1,
                       QWidget *parent=NULL);

      virtual void exec_() = 0;
      virtual QWidget* qwidget() = 0;

#ifdef ENABLE_PYTHON
      virtual PyObject* pyqwidget() = 0;
#else
      virtual void* pyqwidget() = 0;
#endif

      virtual void set_y_axis(double min, double max) = 0;
      virtual void set_update_time(double t) = 0;
      virtual void set_title(const std::string &title) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_label(int which, const std::string &label) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_color(int which, const std::string &color) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_width(int which, int width) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_style(int which, int style) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_marker(int which, int marker) = 0;
      virtual void set_nsamps(const int newsize) = 0;
      virtual void set_samp_rate(const double samp_rate) = 0;
      virtual void set_line_alpha(int which, double alpha) = 0;

      /*!
       * Set up a trigger for the sink to know when to start
       * plotting. Useful to isolate events and avoid noise.
       *
       * The trigger modes are Free, Auto, Normal, and Tag (see
       * gr::qtgui::trigger_mode). The first three are like a normal
       * oscope trigger function. Free means free running with no
       * trigger, auto will trigger if the trigger event is seen, but
       * will still plot otherwise, and normal will hold until the
       * trigger event is observed. The Tag trigger mode allows us to
       * trigger off a specific stream tag. The tag trigger is based
       * only on the name of the tag, so when a tag of the given name
       * is seen, the trigger is activated.
       *
       * In auto and normal mode, we look for the slope of the of the
       * signal. Given a gr::qtgui::trigger_slope as either Positive
       * or Negative, if the value between two samples moves in the
       * given direction (x[1] > x[0] for Positive or x[1] < x[0] for
       * Negative), then the trigger is activated.
       *
       * With the complex time sink, each input has two lines drawn
       * for the real and imaginary parts of the signal. When
       * selecting the \p channel value, channel 0 is the real signal
       * and channel 1 is the imaginary signal. For more than 1 input
       * stream, channel 2i is the real part of the ith input and
       * channel (2i+1) is the imaginary part of the ith input
       * channel.
       *
       * The \p delay value is specified in time based off the sample
       * rate. If the sample rate of the block is set to 1, the delay
       * is then also the sample number offset. This is the offset
       * from the left-hand y-axis of the plot. It delays the signal
       * to show the trigger event at the given delay along with some
       * portion of the signal before the event. The delay must be
       * within 0 - t_max where t_max is the maximum amount of time
       * displayed on the time plot.
       *
       * \param mode The trigger_mode: free, auto, normal, or tag.
       * \param slope The trigger_slope: positive or negative. Only
       *              used for auto and normal modes.
       * \param level The magnitude of the trigger even for auto or normal modes.
       * \param delay The delay (in units of time) for where the trigger happens.
       * \param channel Which input channel to use for the trigger events.
       * \param tag_key The name (as a string) of the tag to trigger off
       *                 of if using the tag mode.
       */
      virtual void set_trigger_mode(trigger_mode mode, trigger_slope slope,
                                    float level, float delay, int channel,
                                    const std::string &tag_key="") = 0;

      virtual std::string title() = 0;
      virtual std::string line_label(int which) = 0;
      virtual std::string line_color(int which) = 0;
      virtual int line_width(int which) = 0;
      virtual int line_style(int which) = 0;
      virtual int line_marker(int which) = 0;
      virtual double line_alpha(int which) = 0;

      virtual void set_size(int width, int height) = 0;

      virtual void enable_menu(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_grid(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_autoscale(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_stem_plot(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_semilogx(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_semilogy(bool en=true) = 0;
      virtual void enable_tags(int which, bool en) = 0;

      virtual int nsamps() const = 0;
      virtual void reset() = 0;

      QApplication *d_qApplication;
    };

  } /* namespace qtgui */
} /* namespace gr */

#endif /* INCLUDED_QTGUI_TIME_SINK_C_H */