[Scilab-users] Suppressing figure window

[Оськин Владимир]

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13.12.2014, 15:48, "Calixte Denizet" <calixte.denizet at scilab-enterprises.com>:
> 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.
>
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