SAS/AF Software: Class Dictionary

Creating a Scatter Control

To create a Scatter control, open a frame and select a Scatter Control from the Components window. This instantiates the control for you. You can name the control by opening the Properties sheet and assigning a name on the name attribute.

You can then perform the following tasks:

Before a graph is drawn, you must specify the data set and at least two variables. You can set other attributes before this is done, but no graph is drawn until the data set and variables are specified.

If you enter the data set and variables through the Properties sheet in build mode, the graph is displayed as soon as you enter the minimum information. If you use SCL to enter the information, the graph is displayed as soon as the minimum information is set and a Return statement is encountered. If you specify a data set or variable that does not exist, a warning is written to the SAS log, and no graph is drawn.

In build mode, using the Properties sheet:

as soon as you enter the minimum information the XDataMin, YDataMin, ZDataMin and XDataMax, YDataMax, ZDataMax attributes are filled in with the minimum and maximum values from the data set. Also, if any of the variables were character data, then the XVariableType, YVariableType, and ZVariableType values are set to Categorical and are no longer editable until you change the variable. This is because character data cannot be treated numerically.
as you change attributes in the Property sheet, variable types do not change automatically every time. For example, if you assign a character variable to ZVariable, the variable type will change to Categorical. If you then assign a numerical variable to ZVariable, the variable type will still be categorical because it is valid to treat numerical data categorically.

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