Copy Picture - Truncating (Fix)

djhanson

If use use <<Copy Picture with display boxes, like Vlistbox, the resultant image will be erroneous truncated at the bottom with multiple display boxes vertically stacked within a Vlistbox.  This seems similar to the <<Save Picture truncating, but in this case a PC reboot does no good.

 

Issue: image truncates at bottom (db1, db2 are display boxes of some sort)

 

vlb = V List Box( db1, db2 ) << copy picture;

Fix:vlb = V List Box( db1, db2 );

nw = New Window( "nw", vlb );

nw << copy picture;

nw << close window;

 

 

So if you wrap it within a Window, then the image properly copies without truncating.  Maybe other display boxes can work, too.

 

DJ

ih

I am not sure how to replicate your issue, can you give examples of specific display boxes that have the issue?  In script below I stacked a few boxes on top of each other and the image copied from the vlb with and without the window were the same.  Note that I did make a few syntax changes to your example:

 

Names default to here(1);

dt = Open( "$Sample_data/big class.jmp" );

// make boxes that are bigger than the monitor when stacked, first two fixed sizse
db1 = spacer box( Size( 1000, 1000), Color( blue ) );
db2 = spacer box( Size( 1000, 1000), Color( red ) );
// third one in an outline box
db3 = report( Graph Builder(
	Size( 800, 800 ),
	Show Control Panel( 0 ),
	Variables( X( :height ), Y( :weight ) ),
	Elements( Points( X, Y, Legend( 2 ) ), Smoother( X, Y, Legend( 3 ) ) )
) );
//and last one wraps the third one in a fixed-size box
db4 = Scroll Box( Size( 1000, 1000), db3 );

// splitting your line into two, that way vlb is defined as the list box
// and not the result of copy picture
vlb = V List Box( db1, db2, db3, db4 );

// This gives a blue square on top of a red one (Fig 1):
vlb << copy picture;

// Not sure what is happening here, you haven't defined a 'Fix'namespace..
// Fix:vlb = V List Box( db1, db2 );

//In new window, it looks the same with two squares (Fig 2):
nw = New Window( "nw", vlb );
nw << copy picture;

nw << close window;

 

Here are the two images side by side: