Hazon, Jonathan: I would second the idea of having a memory buffer be the target at some level. I would be interested in getting memcairo working--this allows for powerful direct manipulation of images via PDL, plplot and image libraries. I have used this to good effect on several occasions, but the current limitation are the ugly fonts used by the plain vanilla 'mem' driver.
Regards, Doug Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer III UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Hazen Babcock wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am working on an application which requires plots to be displayed >> within >> the context of the program's windows. In practice this means that >> I needed >> plplot to have the ability to plot to a supplied X Drawable rather >> than to an X window which plplot creates and manages itself. > > How well do you think it would work to have PLplot/cairo draw into a > memory buffer which is then transfered by the library user to a X > Drawable? This seems to be more general, but perhaps plotting to X > Drawable already covers 90% of the common use cases? The structure > for this already exists to some extent in the form of the memcairo > driver, but unfortunately this driver is not yet functional. > > Also, in your patch, you need to consider the situation where the > user does not have X Windows and the related libraries installed on > their machine. > > best, > -Hazen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
