Name

The name is a character string indicating the type of picture created. It should reflect the general intention of the plotting space, and not describe specifically what the picture contains. For example, the name `FRAME' is used to indicate that the space will be used to group together a collection of other plots. The name `DATA' is used to indicate that the space will contain some sort of representation of data in graphical form, e.g. a grey-scale image, or a scatter plot. The name `BASE' is used by AGI to signify the base picture, and this name should not be used for other purposes. The length of the name string is limited to the number of characters defined by the AGI__SZNAM constant from the AGI_PAR FORTRAN include file (currently 15 characters). When stored in the database the character string will have leading blanks removed and converted into upper case.

There are at present no compulsory names, but clearly consistent usage is necessary if packages written by different programmers are to integrate successfully.