Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.All,
I have a script with function that creates a GraphBuilder. It then gets packed into display boxes and put into a new window. Somehow, commands to change FrameBox size from within the function are ignored, and I can only change it when window is created. Why is that? I'd like this functionality to be inside the function, so that it outputs a plot that does not need any additional tinkering with. Changing title works from within the function, why not changing size?
Here's an example with 3 different attempts to change FrameBox size - only the third one works.
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
X_Parameter = "height";
Y_Parameter = "weight";
groupColumn = "sex";
titleText = "Example";
GBfunction= Function( {dt, X_parameter, Y_Parameter, groupByColumnString, titleText = ""},
groupByColumn = Column( dt, groupByColumnString );
cb = Context Box(
gb = Graph Builder(
Size( 350, 600 ),
Ignore Platform Preferences( 1 ),
Show Control Panel( 0 ),
Variables( X( Column( X_Parameter ) ), Y( Column( Y_Parameter ) ), Overlay( groupByColumn ) ),
);
rgb = gb << Report;
(rgbOB = ((rgb << XPath( "//OutlineBox[@helpKey = 'Graph Builder']" ))[1])) << Set Title( titleText );
//Attempt #1
(rgb << XPath( "(//OutlineBox//FrameBox)" )) << Frame Size( 350, 200 );
//Attempt #2
//(rgbOB << XPath( "//FrameBox" )) << Frame Size( 350, 200 );
);
Return( cb );
);
lub = Lineup Box( N Col( 3 ) );
lub << Append( GBfunction( dt, X_Parameter, Y_Parameter, groupColumn, titleText ) );
ob_group = Outline Box( "GB Function example: " || (dt << Get Name) );
ob_group << Append( lub );
nw = New Window( (dt << get name), ob_group );
//Attempt #3
rgb = ob_group << XPath( "//OutlineBox[@helpKey='Graph Builder']" );
//(rgb << XPath( "(//OutlineBox//FrameBox)" )) << Frame Size( 350, 200 );Automation and ScriptingRe: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.I think changing the frame size doesn't work properly as the frame hasn't yet been visualized, some auto-resizing does take over and there can potentially also be some timing issues.
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.I tried setting auto stretching to 0 and stretching to none, obviously, didn't help 
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.Figuring out what is forcing the size to be something weird is not always easy. Is there a specific reason why you aren't utilizing Graph Builder's << Size? I know that sometimes it can require some pre-calculations for example when using groups or wrapping
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Names Default To Here(1);
dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp");
X_Parameter = "height";
Y_Parameter = "weight";
groupColumn = "sex";
titleText = "Example";
GBfunction = Function({dt, X_parameter, Y_Parameter, groupByColumnString, titleText = ""}, {Default Local},
groupByColumn = Column(dt, groupByColumnString);
cb = Context Box(
gb = dt << Graph Builder(
Size(100, 100),
Ignore Platform Preferences(1),
Show Control Panel(0),
//Fit To Window("Off"),
Variables(
X(Column(X_Parameter)),
Y(Column(Y_Parameter)),
Overlay(groupByColumn)
),
);
);
rgb = Report(gb);
(rgbOB = ((rgb << XPath("//OutlineBox[@helpKey = 'Graph Builder']"))[1])) << Set Title(titleText);
fbs = rgb << XPath("(//OutlineBox//FrameBox)");
gb << Size(400, 250);
Return(cb);
);
lub = Lineup Box(N Col(3));
lub << Append(GBfunction(dt, X_Parameter, Y_Parameter, groupColumn, titleText));
ob_group = Outline Box("GB Function example: " || (dt << Get Name));
ob_group << Append(lub);
nw = New Window((dt << get name), ob_group);
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.Yes, there is a reason - I need to mimic the same look and feel that I had in previous iterations of the script that utilized Fit Y by X.
GraphBuilder will change FrameBox size depending on other elements in GB display box - Axis or Legend size, for instance.
At the end these plots will go to a report where the size of the graph area (what exactly the FrameBox is) should be consistent between different plots on the report. That's why.
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.One option could be to create the new window first
Names Default To Here(1);
dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp");
X_Parameter = "height";
Y_Parameter = "weight";
groupColumn = "sex";
titleText = "Example";
GBfunction = Function({lub, dt, X_parameter, Y_Parameter, groupByColumnString, titleText = ""}, {Default Local},
cb = Context Box(
gb = dt << Graph Builder(
Size(600, 600),
Ignore Platform Preferences(1),
Show Control Panel(0),
Fit To Window("Off"),
Variables(X(Eval(X_Parameter)), Y(Eval(Y_Parameter)), Overlay(Eval(groupByColumnString))),
)
);
rgb = Report(gb);
lub << Append(cb);
(rgbOB = ((rgb << XPath("//OutlineBox[@helpKey = 'Graph Builder']"))[1])) <<
Set Title(titleText);
fbs = rgb << XPath("(//OutlineBox//FrameBox)");
fbs << Frame Size(400, 250);
);
lub = Lineup Box(N Col(3));
ob_group = Outline Box("GB Function example: " || (dt << Get Name));
ob_group << Append(lub);
nw = New Window((dt << get name), Window View("Invisible"), ob_group);
GBfunction(lub, dt, X_Parameter, Y_Parameter, groupColumn, titleText);
nw << Show Window(1);
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.You example works as written. However, when I try to implement it in my real-life script, it does resize the FrameBox from Size(350, 600) to something else at the end.
Basically, I have LineUpBox for a reason - I generate several plots in that box, and every third one (or to be precise, every rightmost in each row) has Legend displayed (same for all plots). So when I run it with three plots, the final size of all three FrameBoxes ends up being:
{{350, 220}, {350, 220}, {350, 240}}
instead of {350, 200} that I am trying to resize it to or the initial {350, 600} that GraphBuilder made it with.
I'll try to make a working example that breaks your suggestion later on.
Re: Can't change FrameBox size when creating report - only when all display boxes AND window created.This has been a bug forever with GraphBuilder, and there is no easy work-around. I have an external program that can send notifications back to JMP (it's a localhost server that JMP starts with runcommand) and I feed it a message to ping JMP back in 0.25 seconds, and on that pingback I trigger the forcing of the framesize -- which now occurs after the boxes have all been painted.
