Re: Image display using octave in WINNT

[Paul Kienzle]

Try the attached modification to image.m.

Paul Kienzle
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Augusto Silva wrote:

> I am not be able to display images (imshow imagasc etc ...) with OCTAVE/
> WINNT environment.
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Thank you
>
> Augusto Silva
>
> DET/IEETA - Univ. Aveiro
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} image (@var{x}, @var{zoom})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} image (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{A}, @var{zoom})
## Display a matrix as a color image.  The elements of @var{x} are indices
## into the current colormap and should have values between 1 and the
## length of the colormap.  If @var{zoom} is omitted, the image will be
## scaled to fit within 600x350 (to a max of 4).
##
## The axis values corresponding to the matrix elements are specified in
## @var{x} and @var{y}. At present they are ignored.
## @end deftypefn
## @seealso{imshow, imagesc, and colormap}

## Author: Tony Richardson <address@hidden>
## Created: July 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe
## Changes
##   2000-09-19 Paul Kienzle incorporated Douglas Steele's suggestions 
##   for a windows version. (Sept. 2000 help-octave archives).
function image (x, y, A, zoom)

  if (nargin == 0)
    ## Load Bobbie Jo Richardson (Born 3/16/94)
    x = loadimage ("default.img");
    zoom = 2;
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    A = x;
    zoom = [];
    x=y=[];
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    A = x;
    zoom = y;
    x=y=[];
  elseif (nargin == 3)
    zoom = [];
  elseif (nargin > 4)
    usage ("image (matrix, [zoom]) or image (x, y, matrix, [zoom])");
  endif

  if isempty(zoom)
    ## Find an integer scale factor which sets the image to
    ## approximately the size of the screen.
    zoom = min([350/rows(A), 600/columns(A), 4]);
    if zoom>=1
      zoom=floor(zoom);
    else
      zoom=1/ceil(1/zoom);
    endif
  endif

  B=A-min(min(A))+0.5;
  B=B/max(max(B)+0.5);
  
  map = colormap();
  [m2,n2]=size(map);
  bmpwrite(B*m2,map,'tmp');
  system(['mspaint tmp.bmp');
  system('rm tmp.bmp');

endfunction