[Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing uicontrols to any format

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Hi everyone,

After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols to demo some physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502 ( https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502 ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format (ie no exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with uicontrols where both the plots and the uicontrols are well rendered?

Antoine

PS: for a bit of context, try the following:

1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty

[Rafael Guerra]

Hi Antoine,

I do not have an answer but a question, if you will.
Why is it important for you to export the whole shebang from Scilab?

For the regular figures the export functions work fine and generate high-resolution post-script files.
For the GUI figures, using external screen capture software does not seem to me to be a big handicap, but I might be wrong and I therefore raise the question.

Thanks and regards,
Rafael


-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-***@lists.scilab.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Monmayrant
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:41 PM
To: Users mailing list for Scilab <***@lists.scilab.org>
Subject: [Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing uicontrols to any format

Hi everyone,

After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols to demo some physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502 ( https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502 ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format (ie no exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with uicontrols where both the plots and the uicontrols are well rendered?

Antoine

PS: for a bit of context, try the following:

1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty

[Philipp Mühlmann]

Dear all,

searching a little how GUI's can be "screenshotted" in Matlab gave me
following:

Request on a Matlab forum, see:

https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/146264

[...] " In order to show users without atlab on their desktop the output, i
want to create a export function."

This could be the reason for having the oppertunity of screenshotting a GUI.

Anyways:

to me it seems that following is needed to do the trick:

[name,path,index] = uiputfile
saveas(guifigurehandle,[path name]);

while "saveas" calls "print"
see "ocatave" code:
https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/saveas_8m_source.html

The print.m code is than way beyond my code understanding.
see "ocatave" code:
https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/print_8m_source.html


best regards,
Phil

Post by Rafael Guerra
Hi Antoine,
I do not have an answer but a question, if you will.
Why is it important for you to export the whole shebang from Scilab?
For the regular figures the export functions work fine and generate
high-resolution post-script files.
For the GUI figures, using external screen capture software does not seem
to me to be a big handicap, but I might be wrong and I therefore raise the
question.
Thanks and regards,
Rafael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:41 PM
Subject: [Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing uicontrols to any format
Hi everyone,
After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols to demo some
physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502 (
https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502 ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format (ie no
exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with uicontrols where both
the plots and the uicontrols are well rendered?
Antoine
1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty
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[Philipp Mühlmann]

it seems that:

exportUI() only recognizes figure handles (and axes) for the export.

since pushbuttons etc. are not figure handles they are not exported?


e.g.: handles.mypushbotton.style = "pushbutton"

...should be maybe "figure", "frame" or "axes" to be recognized by
exportUI().

Seems to be the same with "printfigure()"




sidequestion:

Is it possible to export content of a xml-file to an figure/image?

If so one could maybe use:

saveGui(gcf(), 'screenshot.xml');

and than convert the content of the xml file into an image?

Post by Philipp Mühlmann
Dear all,
searching a little how GUI's can be "screenshotted" in Matlab gave me
https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/146264
[...] " In order to show users without atlab on their desktop the output,
i want to create a export function."
This could be the reason for having the oppertunity of screenshotting a GUI.
[name,path,index] = uiputfile
saveas(guifigurehandle,[path name]);
while "saveas" calls "print"
see "ocatave" code: https://fossies.org/dox/
octave-4.0.3/saveas_8m_source.html
The print.m code is than way beyond my code understanding.
see "ocatave" code: https://fossies.org/dox/
octave-4.0.3/print_8m_source.html
best regards,
Phil

Post by Rafael Guerra
Hi Antoine,
I do not have an answer but a question, if you will.
Why is it important for you to export the whole shebang from Scilab?
For the regular figures the export functions work fine and generate
high-resolution post-script files.
For the GUI figures, using external screen capture software does not seem
to me to be a big handicap, but I might be wrong and I therefore raise the
question.
Thanks and regards,
Rafael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:41 PM
Subject: [Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing uicontrols to any format
Hi everyone,
After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols to demo some
physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502 (
https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502 ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format (ie no
exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with uicontrols where both
the plots and the uicontrols are well rendered?
Antoine
1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty
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[Philipp Mühlmann]

pittywise driver() does also not brings the solution

interstingly playing with usecanvas() made it possible to only show
pushbuttons in a figure.

e.g.:
usecanvas(%T);

f=figure();plot2d();h=uicontrol(f,'unit','normalized',"style","pushbutton","string","pushbutton",
'Position',[0.1, 0.7, 0.2,
0.1]);h=uicontrol(f,'unit','normalized',"style","frame","string","frame",
'Position',[0.1, 0.5, 0.2, 0.1]);


but expoting this figure as a image file resulted in having the know style.
no pushbuttons rendered, only the figure of plot2d().....(also not the
frame)

Post by Philipp Mühlmann
exportUI() only recognizes figure handles (and axes) for the export.
since pushbuttons etc. are not figure handles they are not exported?
e.g.: handles.mypushbotton.style = "pushbutton"
...should be maybe "figure", "frame" or "axes" to be recognized by
exportUI().
Seems to be the same with "printfigure()"
Is it possible to export content of a xml-file to an figure/image?
saveGui(gcf(), 'screenshot.xml');
and than convert the content of the xml file into an image?

Post by Philipp Mühlmann
Dear all,
searching a little how GUI's can be "screenshotted" in Matlab gave me
https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/146264
[...] " In order to show users without atlab on their desktop the output,
i want to create a export function."
This could be the reason for having the oppertunity of screenshotting a GUI.
[name,path,index] = uiputfile
saveas(guifigurehandle,[path name]);
while "saveas" calls "print"
see "ocatave" code: https://fossies.org/dox/octave
-4.0.3/saveas_8m_source.html
The print.m code is than way beyond my code understanding.
see "ocatave" code: https://fossies.org/dox/octave
-4.0.3/print_8m_source.html
best regards,
Phil

Post by Rafael Guerra
Hi Antoine,
I do not have an answer but a question, if you will.
Why is it important for you to export the whole shebang from Scilab?
For the regular figures the export functions work fine and generate
high-resolution post-script files.
For the GUI figures, using external screen capture software does not
seem to me to be a big handicap, but I might be wrong and I therefore raise
the question.
Thanks and regards,
Rafael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:41 PM
Subject: [Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing uicontrols to any format
Hi everyone,
After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols to demo some
physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502 (
https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502 ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format (ie no
exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with uicontrols where both
the plots and the uicontrols are well rendered?
Antoine
1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty
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[a***@laas.fr]

Hi all,

Just in case it can help someone else, here is the code I hacked this
morning to get a proper export menu on my figures.
It really is a hack and should probably work only on my machine (linux
64 bits, X window, ImageMagick) and with my current figure layout:

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// New menu
h = uimenu(demo_fp, ...
"label" , gettext("File"));

// Export entry
uimenu(h, ...
"label" , gettext("Export Figure (Hack)"), ...
"callback" , "exportHack();", ...
"tag" , "export_menu");


function exportHack()
// Export figure with uicontrols to png using X server & import
(imagemagick)
// Horrible hack the should only work on my machine (linux 64bits.
// get around bug http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14836
https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502
h=gcbo;
//current figure name
figname=h.parent.parent.figure_name;
//getting X server id for current window
ret=unix_g("xwininfo -int -name " +""""+figname+"""");
//hackish, depends directly on the syntax of xwininfo outputs
tok=tokens(ret(2),':');
tok=tokens(tok(3)," ")
winid=tok(1);//X server windows id, as a string

// File save dialog parameters
file_mask=["*.png"];
boxTitle="Export";
//If previous filename is present, use it to start the dialog in the
corresponding directory
if h.userdata~="" then
dir=h.userdata;
else
dir=pwd();
end
dir
PathFileName=uiputfile(file_mask,dir,boxTitle);
// LD_LIBRARY_PATH required to get around bug:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14143
unix_s("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ;
import -window "+winid +" "+PathFileName)
// keep savec filename for future reference.
h.userdata=PathFileName;
endfunction

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


Hope it helps,

Antoine

Post by Philipp Mühlmann
pittywise driver() does also not brings the solution
interstingly playing with usecanvas() made it possible to only show
pushbuttons in a figure.
usecanvas(%T);
f=figure();
plot2d();
h=uicontrol(f,'unit','normalized',"style","pushbutton","string","pushbutton", 'Position',[0.1, 0.7, 0.2, 0.1]);
h=uicontrol(f,'unit','normalized',"style","frame","string","frame", 'Position',[0.1, 0.5, 0.2, 0.1]);
but expoting this figure as a image file resulted in having the know style.
no pushbuttons rendered, only the figure of plot2d().....(also not the
frame)
exportUI() only recognizes figure handles (and axes) for the export.
since pushbuttons etc. are not figure handles they are not exported?
e.g.: handles.mypushbotton.style = "pushbutton"
...should be maybe "figure", "frame" or "axes" to be recognized by
exportUI().
Seems to be the same with "printfigure()"
Is it possible to export content of a xml-file to an figure/image?
saveGui(gcf(), 'screenshot.xml');
and than convert the content of the xml file into an image?
Dear all,
searching a little how GUI's can be "screenshotted" in Matlab
https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/146264
<https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/146264>
[...] " In order to show users without atlab on their desktop
the output, i want to create a export function."
This could be the reason for having the oppertunity of
screenshotting a GUI.
[name,path,index] = uiputfile
saveas(guifigurehandle,[path name]);
while "saveas" calls "print"
https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/saveas_8m_source.html
<https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/saveas_8m_source.html>
The print.m code is than way beyond my code understanding.
https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/print_8m_source.html
<https://fossies.org/dox/octave-4.0.3/print_8m_source.html>
best regards,
Phil
2016-11-02 23:07 GMT+01:00 Rafael Guerra
Hi Antoine,
I do not have an answer but a question, if you will.
Why is it important for you to export the whole shebang
from Scilab?
For the regular figures the export functions work fine and
generate high-resolution post-script files.
For the GUI figures, using external screen capture
software does not seem to me to be a big handicap, but I
might be wrong and I therefore raise the question.
Thanks and regards,
Rafael
-----Original Message-----
Antoine Monmayrant
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:41 PM
Subject: [Scilab-users] Exporting figures containing
uicontrols to any format
Hi everyone,
After a long fight to build fancy graphics with uicontrols
to demo some physics, I am now stuck because of bug 14502
( https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502
<https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502> ).
Basically, I have no way to export my figure to any format
(ie no exportUI(gcf()) and no xs2something).
As any of you ever managed to export a figure with
uicontrols where both the plots and the uicontrols are
well rendered?
Antoine
1) Demos->GUI->Uicontrols 2 //(or any with uicontrols)
2) h=gcf();xs2svg(h, 'h.svg'); // or any other format
3) open h.svg, it's empty
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
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<http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
_______________________________________________
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