Brad Douglas wrote: > > The main thing to bear in mind is that the graphics system is going to > > be completely re-written for 7.x. > > Could your provide details? I've seen bits here and there, but it would > be nice to have a summary of planned changes in one place.
Main points include: 1. Eliminating seperate driver processes. Having to extend the protocol for each new operation has been a major drag on development. 2. Use of floating-point for all coordinates. 3. Common architecture for both video and hardcopy output. ps.map should be redundant. In retrospect, #1 means that we don't really need support for the Windows/MacOSX GUI, just the ability to generate image files. With X, we could take the shortcut of having d.* commands draw directly into an existing window, but I don't know whether that's possible on other platforms. OTOH, it might be useful to be able to use the same functions for self-contained GUI programs (e.g. vector digitising) as for d.* commands. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@grass.itc.it http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
