[Scilab-users] Suppressing figure window

[tim at wescottdesign.com]

Thank you.  With a bit of tweaking to my makefile, this should work 
splendidly.

This is the code I ended up with in the one script I've modified so far:

driver("ps");
xinit("motor-PD-friction.eps");
g = gcf();
g.figure_size = [600, 400];
xgrid(2);
plot2d(Tstart:Tstep:Tstop, [xf(1:2, :)' uf]);
legend(['velocity' 'position' 'drive']);
xend();

I am pleased that not only will it direct to a file, but that I can 
still control the aspect ratio of the output and add grids, titles and 
legends.

On 2014-12-13 04:47, Calixte Denizet wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> You could use the function driver:
> 
> my_path = "/tmp";
> driver("pdf"); // select the driver to use
> xinit(my_path+"/foo.pdf") // set the output file name
> plot2d(); // draw something
> xend();
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Calixte
> 
> 
> On 13/12/2014 00:38, Tim Wescott wrote:
>> I have some papers that I maintain on my web site, for example:
>> http://wescottdesign.com/articles/Sampling/sampling.pdf.
>> 
>> These are authored in lyx, with some figures generated with Scilab.  
>> The
>> site is archived as software, and built using a makefile, including 
>> the
>> pdf files.  Rather than keeping the figures as generated graphics 
>> files,
>> I keep the Scilab files and generate the figures as needed.
>> 
>> To generate a figure, make runs it's generating script from a shell,
>> e.g.
>> 
>> scilab -nw -nb -e
>> "execstr(['errcatch(-1,''kill'')';'scf';'exec(''motor-PD-friction.sce'');';'quit'])"
>> 
>> When this happens Scilab silently opens, but when it actually makes 
>> the
>> figure it opens the window on top of whatever is running, draws it, 
>> then
>> closes it.  Since I have several papers on the site (and its growing),
>> this means that I can't leave the make running in the background and 
>> get
>> work done, because I'm constantly getting windows created in my face.
>> 
>> It's kind of like trying to read in the same room as a cat, except 
>> that
>> Scilab figures are not warm and fuzzy, and they do not purr.
>> 
>> Is there a way to tell Scilab to create a figure but to keep it
>> minimized?  Alternately, is there a Unix trick to tell the OS to act
>> like everything is going to a monitor, but suppress it?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>>