[scilab-Users] Copying windows in subplot

[Vincent COUVERT]

Hi Samuel,

Could you post requests about these features for future releases?

I think that the fact that "copy" is limited to some types of graphic 
handles is just a lack of implementation and we should think about 
improving this function in future releases.

Vincent

Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> As a funny thing, i had the same need for cloning a graphic window,
> in the same hour you posted your request! :-)
> I was also quite surprised by this restriction about copy(), able
> to copy every kind of graphic entity, except a whole figure.
> unfortunately, a figure is not just the set of its children.
> It includes other properties that then should be copied by hand.
> Strange thing.
> Some hints about the reason of this restriction would be nice from
> the opteam. Or one could wish to extend copy() to whole figures.
>
> BTW, exclusion of figures is not indicated in the help page.
> It should be legal to state: f1=scf(); f2=copy(f1);
>
>
> Before finding copy() in the graphic bag, i tested some simple
> things such that:
> cf=gcf()
> figure()
> cf2=gcf(); cf2=cf;
> But it doesn't work. No error is yielded, but it does draw anything.
> Then i tried to apply replot(), and draw(), etc, without success.
> Such an intuitive syntax is apparently not supported, despite that
> cloning is done and no error is displayed.
> To the opteam: Could we expect that such syntax would be supported
> with Scilab 6?
> For cloning and adding an axes from a figure to another one:
> f1=scf(1); f2=scf(2); f2 += f1.children(1); // isn't it intelligible ?
>
> This kind of feature is quite standard in other high level languages.
>
>
> Mathieu Dubois <mathieu.dubois at limsi.fr> a écrit :
>
>> .../...
>> It makes sense. The copy help page says that the 2nd handle "should" 
>> be an axis handle but it doesn't say anything about the first one...
>
> What do you mean? Would you like to be able to copy an axes as a 
> rectangle?
> More transtyping would be a great thing in Scilab. IMHO, it is quite
> comprehensible that copy is not a function for casting or extraction.
> So when an axes is copied, it yields an axes.
>
>
>> Also the example is not very verbose...
>>> Furthermore, you can do without using subplot:
>> I was using subplot in the hope that it creates the sub-axis with the 
>> right bounding boxes. If not then what does subplot do?
>
> Your can edit subplot(). It computes normalized coordinates of the area
> you are targetting in the figure, and finally calls newaxes() for
> creating a new axes in this area.
>
> Best regards
> Samuel
>