# Segments properties

description of the Segments entity properties

## Description

The `Segs` entity is a leaf of the graphics entities hierarchy. This entity defines the parameters for a set of colored segments or colored arrows.

parent:

  This property contains the handle of the parent. The parent of the segment entity should be of the type `"Axes"` or `"Compound"`.

children:

  This property contains a vector with the `children` of the handle. However, `segs` handles currently do not have any `children`.

visible:

  This field contains the `visible` property value for the entity. It should be `"on"` or `"off"`. By default, the segments are visible, the value's property is `"on"`. If `"off"` the segments are not drawn on the screen.

data:

  This field is two column matrix `[x,y, [z]]` which gives the coordinates of the segments boundary. If `xv = matrix(x,2,-1)` and `yv = matrix(y,2,-1)` then `xv(:,k)` and `yv(:,k)` are the boundary coordinates of the segment numbered `k`.

line_mode:

  This field contains the default `line_mode` property value for the `segs`. Its value should be `"on"` (line drawn) or `"off"` (no line drawn).

line_style:

  The `line_style` property value should be an integer in `[1 8]`. `1` stands for solid, the other value stands for a selection of dashes (dash, dash dot, longdash dot, bigdash dot, bigdash longdash, dot, double dot).

thickness:

  This property is a positive real specifying the arrow width in pixels. The displayed width is actually determined by rounding the supplied width to the nearest integer. The only exception is vectorial export where the whole `thickness` value is considered.

arrow_size:

  The factor that specify the size of arrowheads. With a negative value, the size is also dependent on the arrows length. To draw segment, the value must be set to 0.

segs_color:

  This field contains the vector of colors to use to draw each segment. Each element is a color index relative to the current colormap.

mark_mode:

  This field contains the default `mark_mode` property value for the polyline. Its value should be `"on"` (marks drawn) or `"off"` (no marks drawn).

mark_style:

  The `mark_style` property value is used to select the type of mark to use when `mark_mode` property is `"on"`. The value should be an integer in `[0 14]` which stands for: dot, plus, cross, star, filled diamond, diamond, triangle up, triangle down, diamond plus, circle, asterisk, square, triangle right, triangle left and pentagram. The figure below shows the aspects of the marks depending on the `mark_style` and the `mark_foreground` and `mark_background` properties.

mark_size_unit:

  This field contains the default `mark_size_unit` property value. If `mark_size_unit` is set to `"point"`, then the `mark_size` value is directly given in points. When `mark_size_unit` is set to `"tabulated"`, `mark_size` is computed relative to the font size array: therefore, its value should be an integer in `[0 5]` which stands for 8pt, 10pt, 12pt, 14pt, 18pt and 24pt. Note that plot2d and pure scilab functions use `tabulated` mode as default; when using plot function, the `point` mode is automatically enabled.

mark_size:

  The `mark_size` property is used to select the type of size of the marks when `mark_mode` property is `"on"`. Its value should be an integer between 0 and 5 which stands for 8pt, 10pt, 12pt, 14pt, 18pt and 24pt.

mark_foreground:

  This field contains the `mark_foreground` property value which is the marks' edge color. Its value should be a color index (relative to the current `color_map`) or 0 for transparent edge.

mark_background:

  This field contains the `mark_background` property value which is the marks' face color. Its value should be a color index (relative to the current `color_map`) or 0 for transparent face.

clip_state:

  This field contains the `clip_state` property value for the segments. It should be :

  - `"off"` this means that the segments are not clipped.

  - `"clipgrf"` this means that the segments are clipped outside the Axes box.

  - `"on"` this means that the segments are clipped outside the rectangle given by the property `clip_box`.

clip_box:

  This field contains the `clip_box` property. By default segments are not clipped, `clip_state` is `"off"`, so the value should be an empty matrix. Other cases the vector `[x, y, w, h]` (upper-left point, width, height) defines the portions of the segments to display, however `clip_state` property value will be changed.

user_data:

  This field can be use to store any scilab variable in the `segs` data structure, and to retrieve it.

## Examples

    a=get("current_axes");//get the handle of the newly created axes
    a.data_bounds=[-10,-10;10,10];
    x=2*%pi*(0:7)/8;
    xv=[2*sin(x);9*sin(x)];
    yv=[2*cos(x);9*cos(x)];
    xsegs(xv,yv,1:8)

    s=a.children
    s.arrow_size=1;
    s.segs_color=15:22;
    for j=1:2
      for i=1:8
        h=s.data(i*2,j);
        s.data(i*2,j)=s.data(i*2-1,j);
        s.data(i*2-1,j)=  h;
      end
    end

    s.segs_color=5; //set all the colors to 5

    s.clip_box=[-4,4,8,8];
    a.thickness=4;
    xrect(s.clip_box);

## See Also

- set
- get
- delete
- xsegs
- graphics entities

## History

5.4.0
line_style value 0 is obsolete, use 1 instead (both are equivalent for SOLID). Using value 0 will produce an error in Scilab 5.4.1.