Re: figure positioning problem

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 19, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Any thoughts as to why the result from a script is different than from the 
>> command line?
> 
> Maybe because in a script, the figure is not created immediately. It's
> only created on the next drawnow, which happens at the next octave
> prompt. This also means that the figure won't be displayed, and it
> won't get any resize event (in any windowing system, a window receives
> a resize event just before being shown the first time). However, that
> initial resize event is what will adjust the position property to the
> actual window size. So until the figure is displayed, the position
> property value may not be correct.
> 
> Michael.

I tried adding a "drawnow()" before the print statement in my script. The 
resulting graphic is now too tall by the status bar height. Without the drawnow 
it is too short. After the script runs, printing from the command line produces 
the correct result.

I've got to run, but I'll post a script later for others to try.

Ben