Hi Alban: I have just tried your further changes to handle properly the the non-availability of SVG on Qt 4.2. They work well for me. In fact, I can now run -dev epspdfqt and -dev rasterqt without issues so I suspect there were some additional improvements in those updates.
Anyhow, your further changes are now committed (revision 9676). The big issue I noticed at this time is I cannot get -dev qtwidgets to work. Here are the symptoms (when run in the installed examples directory). softw...@raven> c/x01c -dev qtwidget PLplot library version: 5.9.2 *** PLPLOT ERROR, IMMEDIATE EXIT *** Must call plsqtdev first to set user plotting widget! Program aborted >From this error message, I suspect this "device" is not currently a plug-in device that works like, say, -dev wxwidgets. Instead, I suspect this "device" functionality is needed for the standalone GUI example you sent me (but which I haven't had a chance to try yet). Standalone GUI's are great, and I promise to move forward with integrating that example into our build system, but I suspect it would also be nice to have the interactive GUI capability available as a -dev qtwidget plug-in. Would you be willing to implement that? This gets back to the question of the difference between a driver plug-in (totally controlled by the libplplot dynamic driver infrastructure so that anything that calls libplplot can use it) and driver-related bindings that we discussed previously off list. A good example of a driver-related bindings is the plplotwxwidgetsd library built in bindings/wxwidgets which is used by the wxwidgets standalone example, examples/c++/wxPLplotDemo.cpp). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
