I'll look into the plparseopts situation. Also, with the examples, the former ada_plplot.adb is just a high- level driver to run all of the examples as they become available--it is not necessary if the examples are kept as stand-alone programs. So--I recommend just renaming all the example files to x??a.adb and letting them run as standalones, and eliminating the x??.adb and x??.ads naming level completely. That was my intention originally but I see that I forgot to adopt that naming convention. I can take care of this.
Jerry On Feb 28, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-02-27 16:25-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> ToDo: >> >> (2) Set up ctest so that the ada example will be executed as a >> result of the >> ctest command. This refinement is not essential for testing so >> long as you >> remember to set the EXAMPLES_DIR, SRC_EXAMPLES_DIR, and PLPLOT_LIB >> environment variables to the proper locations for everything. > > Done. > >> (3) Fill in the rest of the standard examples implemented in Ada. > > I added the standard example 10 just to see if I was now an expert Ada > programmer. The answer is probably not... :-) > > N.B. I have renamed the previous ada_plplot.adb to x01a.adb (the main > routine that withs in x01.ad?), and the new standard example is > contained in > the files x10a.adb, x10.adb, and x10.ads. > > Jerry, to do build-tree tests of the Ada interface (after "make" is > executed) for the two examples in CVS now all you have to do is type > > ctest --tests-regex ada > > The resulting test/x01a.ps was identical to test/x01c.ps (generated > with a > prior run) verifying at least the "thick" Ada interface API > exercised in > this test is fine. However, x10c.ps was not identical to x10c.ps. > In the > Ada result the plot boxes are made with tick marks that should not > be there > according to the xopt and yopt command strings "bc". > > Jerry, could you please look at the new example 10? I wrote it almost > entirely in the thin interface. I notice that the C version of > plbox is > called by Box_Around_Viewport in the thick interface in a different > way then > the thin interface plbox Ada routine calls the C version so there > may be a > systematic thin API problem that is revealed by this example. > > Also, I think it is important to emphasize the parallel nature of the > standard examples for every language so I strongly prefer that we > provide > thin interface (e.g., plbox rather than Box_Around_Viewport) standard > examples. That, of course, does not preclude additional examples > written in > the thick interface with the more descriptive names for the API. > > Also, could you provide plparseopts in the thin interface? > Virtually every > language interface has plparseopts defined (normally with just one > argument). > That would have allowed me to write x10.adb completely in the thin > interface. > > Alan > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
