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Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? [message #44790 is a reply to message #44700]

Wed, 13 July 2005 08:09

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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ismxray@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there any way to make a large direct graphic window in IDL?
> Each time I try to use
> window,xsize=2000,ysize=2000
> I always got a window litter bit than the screen size(1600x1200, ).
> The window I can get is " 0: Win(1593,1117, Pixmap) "
> The alternative question is how to make a large size figure in IDL?
> Thanks very much!

Have you tried using the Z-buffer instead?

set_plot, 'Z'
device, set_resolution = [2000, 2000]

; do your plotting

image = TVRead() ; see [1]
write_image, filename, format, image

[1] You can find TVRead() in David Fanning's library. It's designed to
be a better replacement of IDL's tvrd().

-Mike

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		How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: ismxray@yahoo.com on Wed, 13 July 2005 07:36
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 14 July 2005 08:30
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: ismxray@yahoo.com on Thu, 14 July 2005 07:04
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: Bringfried Stecklum on Thu, 14 July 2005 00:50
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 13 July 2005 08:10
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 13 July 2005 08:09
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: liamgumley on Wed, 13 July 2005 13:48
		Re: How to make a big graphic window larger than Xwindows size? By: judy on Wed, 20 July 2005 14:44

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