Grids

FlowJo's Layout editor contains a tool for creating grids inside your layouts. At the top of the Layout window, click the grid icon. Drag out a rectangle where you want your grid to be. FlowJo will respond will a dialog asking for the dimensions of this grid:

Fill in the dimensions and click OK, you will see a grid appear in the layout editor:

A grid is made up of cells, aligned in rows and columns. You can drop any text, chart or picture into a cell. You can even embed grids inside of other grids. Below is a grid containing six different graphs. The grid container makes it easier to align graphs and to work with them collectively. When you drag a grid to a new location in your layout, all of the contents of the cells move with the grid as a group.

Mouse click behavior

If nothing is selected in the layout, then the first click anywhere in the grid will select the entire grid. If the grid is selected, then mouse clicks are passed down into the cell. To drag a grid to a different location, you must deselect it (by clicking in the background of the layout, or on a different item) and then click and drag the grid in one step. If the grid is already selected, then a click will select a cell and drag its contents.

Double click on the grid to reopen the Grid Attributes dialog.

The first items dictate the dimensions of the grid; the number of rows and columns it contains. Set the desired lengths here to change the size of the grid. Note that eliminating cells can cause cell data to be lost.

The Fill Color and Pen Color will determine the colors used in drawing the background of the cells and the lines in the grid. Note that graphs you have placed in the grid are drawn on either a white or a black background, and are not affected by changing the fill color. The area under the labels and surrounding the graph is affected by changing the fill color.

To accomplish independent scalings you must rescale graphics outside of the grid, and then drag them into it at the desired size.

Deleting Cells, Rows & Columns from a Grid

To delete elements of the table, click on a cell and hit the delete key. You will see a dialog box requesting information about what aspect of the table you want to delete. You can choose among removing just the currently selected cell contents, or removing the entire row or column that includes the selected cells. You may also drag an element out of the grid and delete it with the delete key in the usual way.