Re: Saving And Loading Plots in Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 26, 2012, at 9:17 AM, pantxo diribarne wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have given a try to this task : 
> wrote two m-files, hdl2struct.m and struct2hdl.m that respectively store a 
> figure data into a structure and build a new figure with the previous 
> structure. It currently doesn't support hggroups (bar, errorbar, contour, 
> quiver, ...), and have limited support for colorbars, legends (positions 
> problems, visibility not supported) and subplots are raw axes (no use of 
> subplot function so no listeners).
> 
> The structure fields are similar to what I found in a .fig matlab file 
> (handle, type, properties, children, special).
> 
> I don't know if I do it the right way so I wanted to submit this first 
> attempt (see demos in hdl2struct.m) :
> - hdl2struct.m recursively stores the figure properties. Colorbars, Legends, 
> xyzlabels, titles are stored as children of the corresponding axes.
> - struct2hdl.m, the workflow is the following : object is first created with 
> minimal options then its children are created (recursively) and finally its 
> properties are set (some of them are discarded such as deletefcn, ui...). 
> xyzlabels and titles are "special" objects that are created by their parent 
> so only the third step (set properties) is done.    
> 
> Pantxo
> 
> PS : my config is mac-osx 10.7.3, octave 3.6.1 (Ben Abbott's bundle)
>     
> <hdl2struct.m><struct2hdl.m>


So we don't forget about this, please open a patch on our tracker and upload 
the files

        https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=octave

As you make progress, you can update the files.

Thanks !
Ben