Manual editing of polygon and other gate coordinates

[IanN]

Hi

 

Is there a away to manually edit any (or all) of a polygon gate coordinates by manually entering/modifying the specific X,Y co-ordinates for polygon gates in a smilar way we can do it for rectangular and linear gates?

[Ernie]

This is not currently possible through the software, no. Can you tell me why you would want to do this? If I know your goal perhaps I could suggest another way to achieve it. Regardless, it would be good to assess whether we should consider adding this capability in the future.

[IanN]

Hi Ernie

 

Sometimes I'd like to be able to have two polygon regions adjacent to each other (or one polygon and a rectangle) sharing a boundary - if I can manually edit each of the shared boundaries co-ordinates, then I can be sure they match exactly, don't overlap and events along the boundary are only counted once. The other reason is somtimes I want to create polygon regions on a dotplot that cover the same channels defined by a series of histogram markers.

[Ernie]

Ok, I understand and I'm glad I asked. Even if we had this capability, there is no guarantee that some events on the boundary wouldn't be double-counted. The algorithm needs to be specifically designed for that purpose. We have a feature on the wishlist to that would allow you to achieve what you want, I'll bump the priority by one since you asked.

[IanN]

Thanks Ernie - no rush