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Message started by gzatorre on Aug 11^th, 2009, 1:15am

Title: Capturing wave forms from ocean/skill
Post by gzatorre on Aug 11^th, 2009, 1:15am

Hi every body,

I am developing an ocean script that plots some data and I want to capture the wave form window automatically. To do it I am trying to use:
window=newWindow()
currentWindow(window)
plot( Vout ?expr '( "Vout" ) )
system(strcat("xwd -out " out_file " -name " window ))

It does not work because the window variable is "window type". In fact, if you write this in ocean:
strcat("hola" window )
You will have this
*Error* strcat: argument #2 should be either a string or a symbol (type template = "S") - window:2

Is there any way to convert a "window type" variable to "string type"? Even more, is there any other way to capture the wave form window?

Thank you in advance

Best regards

Guillermo

Title: Re: Capturing wave forms from ocean/skill
Post by Andrew Beckett on Aug 15^th, 2009, 6:52am

Well, you could get the window ID as a string, but it's not going to help you because it is not the X window ID. For example:

window->windowNum will return the window number.

The best solution is to make sure you're using Wavescan rather than AWD as your waveform tool. Then you can use:

hardCopyOptions(?hcOutputFile "waveform.png")
hardCopy()

If the filename has the suffix .png, .tif, .tiff or .bmp then a bitmap image will get created from the window contents (the same as File->Save As Image menu).

Regards,

Andrew.