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Re: Top 10 IDL Requests [message #20913 is a reply to message #20666]

Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:

>> "Kristian Kjaer" <Kristian.Kjaer@Risoe.Dk> wrote in message
> news:3981DA40.F3BC8FC9@Risoe.Dk...
>>
>> A print button (and an equivalent cmd-line command) which would work
>> on (direct) graphics already rendered to the screen (using std. direct
>> graphics commands) would null _the_ major quirk in IDL, IMHO.
>
> And how would it be done?
>
> Once a direct graphics command has sent output to an output device, the only
> "memory" IDL has of that command is the changed state of the output device.
> At that point the system (or the user) has two ways of recreating the output
> to a different device:
>
> 1. Switch devices & re-issue the same commands
> 2. Read the output back off the device and send it to the new device.
> ...

3. Have the direct graphics window itself store the required data to
reproduce the output, and the ability to redirect to a new device.

And I am totally serious; this is what I hacked up with XFWINDOW,
which puts a "print" button on any direct graphics window under Unix.
It's a hack because IDL doesn't provide enough documented
functionality to achieve the full effect. I had to go stealth. :-)

The professional astronomy package ESO/MIDAS and the plotting program
QDP have similar functionality: plot windows can remember their input
data, and with a simple command can be redirected to the printer.

The complaint could be made that such a feature might require too much
memory, in the case of complex or repeatedly redrawn graphics. There
are pretty simple ways to get around this too. Sigh...

Craig

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		Top 10 IDL Requests By: davidf on Sun, 16 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Harvey Rarback on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Phillip David on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: dsreyn on Mon, 24 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Jeff Guerber on Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: promashkin on Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: promashkin on Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: kashyap on Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Larry Ashim on Wed, 26 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: kashyap on Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: davidf on Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: wmc on Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00
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		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Kristian Kjaer on Fri, 28 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Nicolas Decoster on Thu, 27 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 30 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: davidf on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 02 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 IDL Requests By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 01 August 2000 00:00
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