Members of the forum -

I'm experimenting with saving bitmaps generated by "viewmat".  However, I
find my usual method of incremental development gets snagged on some kind of
windowing oddness.  My interactive experiment went like this:

   viewmat 1 o. +/~i:6j999
   setsizeloc_jviewmat_ 0 0 1000 1000
   savemat_jviewmat_ pixdir,'SineStripes.bmp'

where "pixdir" is the directory where I store my bitmaps
and savemat_jviewmat_
 sets the size and location of the viewmat window like this:
setsizeloc_jviewmat_=: 3 : 0
   if. 0=#fms=. hforms'' do.
       wdinfo 'viewmat';'No viewmat forms.' return.
   end.
   wd 'psel ',(<0 1) pick fms
   wd 'pmovex ',":y
NB.EG setsizeloc 10 10 240 240
)

I'm resizing it to save a bitmap larger than the default.

However, when I put the first three lines into a
function, the resulting file saved has only 64K (instead of 2.7MB) and
does not display as a valid bitmap.
The same thing happens when I put the three lines into a single statement
separated by "["s.
Something happens, in the timing or otherwise, of returning to immediate
execution.  Inserting wait statements doesn't help - in fact this seems to
freeze the display of the picture frame, before filling it in, for the wait
time.

Is there an obvious way to fix this or better way to save viewmats?

Thanks,

Devon

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