Clone Window
Posted April 14th, 2010 by RGerkin
Clone a window, i.e. make an exact copy of a graph, table, etc. with the same axes, traces, etc. The waves in the original and the clone are shared between the two (no data is copied).
Function CloneWindow([win,replace,with,freeze]) String win // Name of the window to clone. String replace,with // Replace some string in the windows recreation macro with another string. Variable freeze // Make a frozen clone (basically just a picture). if(ParamIsDefault(replace) || ParamIsDefault(with)) replace=""; with="" endif if(ParamIsDefault(win)) win=WinName(0,1) endif String win_rec=WinRecreation(win,0) Variable i for(i=0;i<ItemsInList(replace);i+=1) String one_replace=StringFromList(i,replace) String one_with=StringFromList(i,with) win_rec=ReplaceString(one_replace,win_rec,one_with) endfor if(freeze) Struct rect coords GetWinCoords(win,coords) SavePICT /WIN=$win as "Clipboard" String newName=UniqueName(win,6,0) LoadPICT /O/Q "Clipboard",$newName Display /N=$newName /W=(coords.left,coords.top,coords.right,coords.bottom) DrawPICT /W=$newName 0,0,1,1,$newName else Execute /Q win_rec endif End
CloneWindow, but replace all the traces with copies and puts those copies in one data folder. Data is not shared between the original and the clone.
Function CloneWindow2([win,name,times]) String win String name // The new name for the window and data folder. Variable times // The number of clones to make. Clones beyond the first will have _2, _3, etc. appended to their names. if(ParamIsDefault(win)) win=WinName(0,1) endif if(ParamIsDefault(name)) name=UniqueName2(win,"6;11") else name=CleanupName(name,0) endif times=ParamIsDefault(times) ? 1 : times String curr_folder=GetDataFolder(1) NewDataFolder /O/S root:$name String traces=TraceNameList(win,";",3) Variable i,j for(i=0;i<ItemsInList(traces);i+=1) String trace=StringFromList(i,traces) Wave TraceWave=TraceNameToWaveRef(win,trace) Wave /Z TraceXWave=XWaveRefFromTrace(win,trace) Duplicate /o TraceWave $NameOfWave(TraceWave) if(waveexists(TraceXWave)) Duplicate /o TraceXWave $NameOfWave(TraceXWave) endif endfor String win_rec=WinRecreation(win,0) // Copy error bars if they exist. Won't work with subrange display syntax. for(i=0;i<ItemsInList(win_rec,"\r");i+=1) String line=StringFromList(i,win_rec,"\r") if(StringMatch(line,"*ErrorBars*")) String errorbar_names sscanf line,"%*[^=]=(%[^)])",errorbar_names for(j=0;j<2;j+=1) String errorbar_path=StringFromList(j,errorbar_names,",") sscanf errorbar_path,"%[^[])",errorbar_path String errorbar_name=StringFromList(ItemsInList(errorbar_path,":")-1,errorbar_path,":") Duplicate /o $("root"+errorbar_path) $errorbar_name endfor endif endfor for(i=1;i<=times;i+=1) Execute /Q win_rec if(i==1) DoWindow /C $name else DoWindow /C $(name+"_"+num2str(i)) endif ReplaceWave allInCDF endfor SetDataFolder $curr_folder End

Thank you for this excellent
Thank you for this excellent snippet. One note/question on CloneWindow2: I had to include a colon after "root" when duplicating my error bar waves or they weren't created in the new data folder.
Duplicate /o $("root:"...Any thoughts on this? Thanks!