Is there a way to fix aspect ratio of the Gizmo window of W:H to 1:1?

Can you post a MWE (minimal working example) so that we have something to play around with?

Sure, attached is an example.

In it, you will find two Gizmos opened, one vertically stretched, the other horizontally stretched.
I am finding a way to make the Gizmo windows themselves to have a 1:1 aspect ratio.

Also I should have mentioned:

I am running Igor Pro 8.0.3.1 on Windows 10, the x64 version.

Hello Sandbo,

Please explain what you mean by 1:1 aspect ratio.  In 3D you have 3 dimensions to consider.  Your data in this case is a parametric wave which means that you define the range in all three dimension.

I executed the following commands (you can also see these values from Gizmo Menu->Axis Range...):

At this point, an aspect ratio of 1 as implied by the command above would display the z-extent ~10 times larger than y and ~3x the x direction as implied by the data. 

A.G.

Igor wrote:

Hello Sandbo,

Please explain what you mean by 1:1 aspect ratio.  In 3D you have 3 dimensions to consider.  Your data in this case is a parametric wave which means that you define the range in all three dimension.

I executed the following commands (you can also see these values from Gizmo Menu->Axis Range...):

•matrixop/o lx=singleMode_theory[][][0]
•matrixop/o ly=singleMode_theory[][][1]
•matrixop/o lz=singleMode_theory[][][2]
•print waveMin(lx),waveMax(lx)
  -0.32476  0.32476
•print waveMin(ly),waveMax(ly)
  -0.105469  0.105469
•print waveMin(lz),waveMax(lz)
  -1  1

At this point, an aspect ratio of 1 as implied by the command above would display the z-extent ~10 times larger than y and ~3x the x direction as implied by the data. 

 

A.G.

Thanks for your reply, my apology if I was confusing. 

Here by 1:1 aspect ratio, I am referring to the Gizmo window itself, meaning that I wanted them to be exactly a square. The reason is that the exported graphics (PNG) will be affected by this arbitrary aspect ratio. I could do it roughly, but when I match them to a table (in illustrator), I can see they always have a bit of stretching.

Please refer to the attached image for a more accurate demo. They are not very important to be exactly 1:1, I believe a small distortion is important, but I wondered if there is a command to set them as a square more easily.

If it is truly the entire window that needs to be square, you can use the MoveWindow command to achieve that.

johnweeks wrote:

If it is truly the entire window that needs to be square, you can use the MoveWindow command to achieve that.

Thanks, it does exactly what I wanted.