On 2009-03-19 13:18+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > >> Despite the remaining size and position issues, I encourage everyone here >> to >> try the qt devices on all platforms accessible to you. Also, to make this >> wider testing more convenient, I have decided to turn all qt devices ON by >> default (revision 9732). > > I eventually installed qt 4.5 on Windows and after a small change in pldll.h > the driver compiled and worked (qt widget driver). Qt was actually easy to > install, but it needs 1.2GB of my harddisk and I had only 2GB left ;). So I > tested it only with the MinGW compiler and not with Visual C++ and won't do > that, due to the free space issue. > > I wrote some notes about that into the wiki.
Hi Werner: Thanks, for sorting out the visibility issue which I was aware of but did not know how to fix. I should have just asked you. :-) I confirm that a '-fvisibility=hidden' build on Linux now works for the first time with the qt device driver. Thanks for you wiki notes at http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Qt. I have followed up with some additional notes there on accessing libqt4 with Linux. Will somebody here with access to Mac OS X follow up with notes on that platform as well? http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl has a downloadable Mac OS X version which I presume will work as well as the Windows version did for you and the Linux (64-bit) version did for me. Note, the version you get with the download is that latest/greatest Qt-4.5 while current system versions of libqt tend to be older (e.g., Qt-4.4 on my Debian Lenny system). My tests show that Qt-4.5 clearly does a much better job of producing SVG results than QT-4.4. Presumably Qt-4.5 has other 4.4 bug fixes as well, and so far I haven't run into any specific Qt-4.5 issues. Therefore, I suggest everyone here should use Qt-4.5 (following the above wiki instructions for getting access to it) rather than Qt-4.4 to test the qt device. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
