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bug #54924: savefig should accept a vector of figure handles for Matlab compatibility

Submitter:  Rik <rik5>
Submitted:  Tue 30 Oct 2018 09:51:56 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  3 - Low Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 01 Nov 2018 03:36:45 PM UTC, comment #7: 

I think we can leave things alone for now.  The basic functionality of saving and loading figures has been added to Octave, and I think we can wait to see if there are bug reports or requests for further features.

Rik <rik5>
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Thu 01 Nov 2018 10:44:51 AM UTC, comment #6: 

Thanks Rik - you could have pushed the patch under your name as you did put a lot more work into this than I did!

Concerning the "compact" argument, your changes makes sense. I wonder if we could accept other format types (-v6, -v7, -hdf5) given they would work with hgsave.m.
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/940aabcd6fdb/scripts/plot/util/savefig.m#l74
e.g.:


    if (nargin == 3)
      fmt = varargin{3};
      if (strcmpi (fmt, "compact"))
        fmt = "-zip";
      endif
    endif


with the validation taking place in save.m.

Checking with matlab when the "compact" argument is used, the fig file contains a variable named hgS_080000 so we should also change hgload.m to reflect this:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/940aabcd6fdb/scripts/plot/util/hgload.m#l65


hgs = {"s_oct40", "hgS_050200", "hgS_070000", "hgS_080000"};


Guillaume <gyom>
Wed 31 Oct 2018 07:50:18 PM UTC, comment #5: 

I implemented the "compact" argument in this cset: https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/940aabcd6fdb.  Results will vary based on how well gzip can compress the data, but on a figure that had a sombrero() in it, file size went from 80KB to 17KB or ~4X.

Rik <rik5>
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Wed 31 Oct 2018 07:13:19 PM UTC, comment #4: 

It turned out to be a fairly large changeset.  I took your patch and also modified the documentation and the BIST tests to check the new behavior.  See https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0ab70de0348e.

Closing report.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Wed 31 Oct 2018 10:02:19 AM UTC, comment #3: 

And the BIST in hgsave testing for a single graphics handle should now be accepted as a valid syntax.

I also notice that the file format can be specified as a third argument to hgsave (with default -binary) but that it cannot be modified from the higher level function savefig. Should we reuse savefig's third input argument (currently present for matlab compatibility only) for that?

Guillaume <gyom>
Wed 31 Oct 2018 09:45:35 AM UTC, comment #2: 

True, I guess I thought it was a very unusual thing to do. I attach simple changes to hgload/hgsave that should make it possible now.

(file #45335)

Guillaume <gyom>
Tue 30 Oct 2018 10:20:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

As currently implemented, savefig.m just calls hgsave.  Hence, the capability for multiple handles really needs to be added to hgsave/hgload.

Rik <rik5>
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Tue 30 Oct 2018 09:51:56 PM UTC, original submission:  

According to the documentation for savefig, it should be able to save multiple figure windows in the same file.  It's not really a big deal, but if we could be compatible it would be nice.

Sample code:


h(1) = figure;
sombrero;
h(2) = figure;
peaks;
savefig (h, "two_figs.ofig")



Rik <rik5>
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