Copy Graphics to clipboard

[Mohammed Mostafa]

Is there a command that automatically copies the graphics displayed
on the dislin windows to clipboard so that I can may be paste
somewhere else (say. Paint or Photoshop ).

["Armin Rauthe-Schöch"]

Hi,

I don't know whether DISLIN has such a command. If you plot into an application window, the application should be able to copy the window content to the clipboard. For Windows, copying a graphics to the clipboard is more or less the same than plotting into a window, just that the device context is a different one.

You could maybe also use the Elementary Image Routines (see DISLIN documentation:
http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin/kap9.html#section_9) to access the image data directly (and then use your application to transfer it to the Windows clipboard).

What you could certainly do with DISLIN is to save the plot as a graphics file, say in WMF format (which is what the Windows clipboard uses) and then open the file with Paint or Photoshop.


Good luck!
Armin

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