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Re: Removing Graphics from IDL 8.1 Window [message #78644 is a reply to message #78623]

Fri, 02 December 2011 12:43

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On 12/2/2011 1:36 PM, Mark Piper wrote:
> On 12/2/2011 11:27 AM, David Fanning wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to remove graphics commands from
>> IDL 8.1 windows so the window can be reused? For example, I
>> want to put a plot in the window, then later I want
>> to put a contour plot in the window. I use commands
>> something like this:
>>
>> w = window()
>> w.select
>> p =plot(indgen(10),/CURRENT)
>> w.erase
>> c = contour(/test, /CURRENT)
>
>
> The Delete method should do this, but it's working perhaps a bit too
> literally -- if I delete the plot, the axes remain. I think this is a
> bug, but the workaround is straightforward:
>
> w = window()
> p = plot(/test, /current)
> foreach axis, p['axis*'] do axis.delete
> p.delete
> c = contour(/test, /current)
>
> mp

I checked that this problem is solved correctly in 8.2, where the Erase
method will be available for all NG routines, not just WINDOW.

mp

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		Re: Removing Graphics from IDL 8.1 Window By: David Fanning on Mon, 05 December 2011 09:16
		Re: Removing Graphics from IDL 8.1 Window By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 05 December 2011 09:05
		Re: Removing Graphics from IDL 8.1 Window By: Mark Piper on Fri, 02 December 2011 12:43
		Re: Removing Graphics from IDL 8.1 Window By: Mark Piper on Fri, 02 December 2011 12:36

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