Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Friday, 31 October, 2014 14:50:18 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 10/31/2014 02:21 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > On Saturday, 01 November, 2014 03:57:01 Jun T. wrote:
> >
> >>  I haven't been following this long thread, but
> >
> >>
> >
> >>  2014/10/31 09:03, Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
> >
> >>  > I added it to cvs for 5.1 but I'd like to hear whether it does or
> >
> >>  > doesn't work on Windows and OSX
> >
> >>
> >
> >>  I tried cvs HEAD and the Export to File works fine on OSX,
> >
> >>  but the Copy to clipboard (pasteboard) button is now gone.
> >
> >>  Is it possible to have both?
> >
> > I agree. I was hoping that someone, maybe Dan Sebald, can find a
> >
> > clever way to make "clipboard" act like a filetype in the selection widget.
> >
> >>  When copying the plot to the clipboard, I prefer PDF format rather than
> >
> >>  PNG (either on wxt or qt). Is this possible?
> >
> > I don't know.
> 
> I think it would be possible to derive a custom button from the standard 
> button and add a right mouse click handler to the event table. 

That's more complicated that I had in mind.
I was thinking that "clipboard" would be a label in the file-selector widget
(that part is easy), but unlike the others it would not require a file name
(that is the part I got stuck on).  I can make it copy to the clipboard just
fine, but only if I first click on or type some junk file name.

> How 
> about right mouse click on the clipboard icon opens a dialog or drop 
> down menu that configures the image format saved to file?  To make 
> things more clear, the format, e.g., "png", "pdf", "svg" could be 
> superimposed on the clipboard icon with the format selection.  And maybe 
> change the tool tip to read "Left Click: Copy, Right Click: Configure".

Maybe.  My inclination is that if you want a file then Export-to-File is
the right thing to look for.  The clipboard is typically used for cut-and-paste,
and I don't think many program are expected a paste operation to 
contain pdf or svg.

Or we could just put the Clipboard icon back as a separate widget.
That is easy but IMHO kind of ugly compared to grouping all the 
export options in a single place.


	Ethan