"Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. > In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the > severely limited interactive GUI devices that have been implemented so far.
I agree, but I think it goes beyond just the interactive cursor. It would be nice to be able to rotate a three dimensional surface plot. > > In my opinion what is truly needed for interactive plotting capability is > full cursor capability where the world coordinates of the cursor when a > keyboard key was struck _and_ the identity of that key are returned from the > device to the PLplot library and then back to the routine calling the PLplot > library. Currently no PLplot API exists for returning full cursor data, but > it should be straightforward to extend the API appropriately with plgcursor. > Such a function should make an interactive device wait until the user > struck a key and then the function would return the x, y, (and z?) world > coordinates of the cursor position when the key was struck as well as the > identity (X keycode) of the key that was struck. > I've been rewriting the ms windows driver (I think we should create a new driver called mswin and deprecate the win3 and wingcc drivers) that features many enhancements (tabbed windows for displaying plots, printing, interactive cursor, context menus). I've been writing with the perspective that it could be made into a new driver for X11 applications. I can provide an "early beta" version to whomever is interested and incorporate any feedback. If thee is interest I might be able to generate the X11 version. -jd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
