Re: File dialog in wxt does not work

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On 09/20/14 18:36, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> Naive question on the entire saving/clipboard
> issue: what actually is being saved? Is this
> in any way different than taking a screenshot?
> (Because, if it's not more than a screenshot,
> then gnuplot does not need to implement anything,
> really - there are plenty of screenshot utilities
> out there.)
>

As Ethan correctly points out, there are clipboard widgets in the 
mastodon window managers like KDE and Gnome. Like Philipp I use a 
lightweight WM that does not have loads of bells and whistles.

There is probably some small clipboard util. that I could use if I dug 
around. Firing up Gimp is a hammer/walnut solution.

The difference in what yor get is that with a screen-shot util. you get 
the window borders, icons, menus etc. unless you  try to manually select 
exactly the area you want, which is hard to get exactly right and is 
time consuming.



> When using the "classic" method (set t ..., set o,
> replot, etc), it's very specific regarding the size
> and resolution of the bitmap or vector image that
> is being saved. Is there any control over these
> qualities when copying to clipboard?

In theory , set term wxt size 800,300  determines the terminal window 
size, hence what is copied, by any technique, from the screen output. 
Also FVWM can display the window size during drag to get an exact 
desired window size.

However, while consistent, I find here that it does not give the 
requested size eg 800,300 gives me a window 700,255 !  x always loses 
100 px :?

I find the terminal size that gives me the required clipboard image to 
work around that problem. Maybe I should raise a bug about that.

Using set t png; set output "fn"; replot  produces significantly 
different results to what is on the screen which, as I detailed earlier, 
is why I no longer use the gnuplot ong etc  terminals to produce 
permanent output.

I ought to find a more efficient way of saving clipboard to file.

regards. Peter




>
> Best,
>
> 		Ph.