Scilab Function

driver - select a graphics driver

Calling Sequence

driver(driver_name)
current_driver=driver()

Parameters

Description

This function is used to select a graphics driver, or with no arguments to get the current graphics driver name. Most of the time, a user can ignore this function and change the driver by calling high level functions such as xbasc or xbasimp. The selected driver can be one of the followings:

  • "X11" : output to the screen of the computer.
  • "Pos" : output into Postscript format.
  • "Rec" : output to the screen of the computer with recording of all the graphics commands. This is the default driver.
  • "Fig" : output into XFig format. Clipping of objects is not provided in XFig.
  • "GIF" : output into Gif format based on gd (http://www.boutell.com/gd)
  • "PPM" : output into PPM format based on gd (http://www.boutell.com/gd)
  • REMARK

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