Re: Is it possible to ex****t graphics objects and direct graphics in the same file?

bernat writes:

> In my interface I combine Direct Graphics (plots on WIDGET_DRAWs) and
> Graphic Objects (IDLgrImages and IDLgrPlots). When I want to ex****t my
> view to PS file I have a problem.
> I ex****t the view using IDLgrClipboard:
> 
> self.clipboard->SetProperty, DIMENSIONS=dimensions, UNITS=2
> self.clipboard->Draw, self.oView, /POSTSCRIPT, /VECTOR,
> FILENAME=filename
> 
> Then I change the DEVICE to PS and I plot in the same file:
> 
> SET_PLOT,'ps'
> DEVICE,  FILENAME=filename, /COLOR, /HELVETICA, XSIZE=dimensions[0],
> YSIZE=dimensions[1]
> 
> When I do that the final file is the last that I painted.
> 
> Is it possible to ex****t a View with Graphic Objects and Direct
> Graphics in the same file ????  Any suggestions?

From within IDL!? You didn't believe all those warnings about
not mixing object graphics and direct graphics, huh?

I don't think so.

Cheers,

David
-- 
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Se****e ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")