Re: figure positioning problem

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> With this change the problem I mentioned earlier with printing from a script 
> is greatly improved. The only remaining problem is that when I run the script 
> below ...
>
>        clear all
>        v = version;
>        dpi = round (get (0, "screenpixelsperinch"));
>        paperposition = get (0, "defaultfigurepaperposition");
>        position = get (0, "defaultfigureposition");
>        position(3:4) = paperposition(3:4) * dpi;
>        for backend = {"gnuplot", "fltk"}
>          close all
>          graphics_toolkit (backend{1});
>          figure (1, "position", position)
>          plot (rand (2))
>          set (gca, "activepositionproperty", "position")
>          axis ([1, 2, 0, 1])
>          print (sprintf ("-r%d", dpi), sprintf ("Octave-%s-%s.png", v, 
> backend{1}))
>          drawnow
>        endfor
>
> ... the height of the FLTK result is off by the height of the status bar, but 
> when I then create a second image from the command line ...
>
>        print -r100 test_r100.png
>
> ... everything is ok (the FLTK result matched gnuplot).

My guess is that the FLTK backend associate the position property with
the internal size (excluding title bar and window border) of the main
container in the figure window, but that container also includes the
status bar.

Michael.