| Re: Printing a collection of widget items [message #49494] |
Wed, 02 August 2006 06:59  |
Jim Pendleton, ITT Vi
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Registered: August 2006
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If you're on Windows, you might consider the following IDL utility.
http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=413
It relies on a trick that may or may not be avilable with all graphics
cards.
Jim P.
"Ryan." <rchughes@brutus.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
news:1154463553.820337.128570@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Dear All,
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> I have one window with a collection of button, text, draw and label
> widgets (in one base widget) and would like to know if there is a way
> of printing it. I tried to get the value (id) of the base widget to
> try to use David Fanning's TVREAD routine, but you cannot call the
> get_value parameter on a widget_base. Has anyone been able to do this
> or does anyone know what the correct way to do it? My routine is quite
> lengthy because there are so many widgets so I will not include it but
> I can put it up if you would like. Thanks.
>
> Ryan.
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| Re: Printing a collection of widget items [message #49499 is a reply to message #49494] |
Tue, 01 August 2006 17:34  |
Benjamin Hornberger
Messages: 258
Registered: March 2004
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Ryan. wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have one window with a collection of button, text, draw and label
> widgets (in one base widget) and would like to know if there is a way
> of printing it. I tried to get the value (id) of the base widget to
> try to use David Fanning's TVREAD routine, but you cannot call the
> get_value parameter on a widget_base. Has anyone been able to do this
> or does anyone know what the correct way to do it? My routine is quite
> lengthy because there are so many widgets so I will not include it but
> I can put it up if you would like. Thanks.
>
> Ryan.
>
Do you want a screenshot of your widget program? I'm don't think you can
do that from within IDL, but any decent image viewer / editor (e.g.,
Irfan View on Windows) can take screenshots. If you can find a command
line tool (probably Image Magick has one) to capture the currently
active window, you can just spawn a call to that.
If you don't care about the exact widget layout but more about the
information in the widgets, you can just capture the draw widget with
TVREAD, print it and manually print the values from the text / label
widgets next to it (XYOUTS).
Good luck,
Benjamin
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| Re: Printing a collection of widget items [message #49589 is a reply to message #49499] |
Wed, 02 August 2006 08:14 |
Ryan.
Messages: 77
Registered: March 2006
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Hi Benjamin,
> If you don't care about the exact widget layout but more about the
> information in the widgets, you can just capture the draw widget with
> TVREAD, print it and manually print the values from the text / label
> widgets next to it (XYOUTS).
Thanks for your response but all my draw widgets are indicator lights
(only 1 of 5 colors) for about 30 different things so putting the
labels on manually would not be feasible. It would be better for me to
spend my time writing something where all the indicators are written
directly to a postscript file. I am using IDL on UNIX and have the
plotting set to X windows. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Ryan.
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