Hi Hazen: (with a question for Alban below).
I have just committed (as of revision 10186) the default colour palette files cmap[01]_default.pal which correspond to what you get by default from PLplot if no colour palette files are specified and you are using the default dark background. (The latter condition needs to be stated because PLplot uses a different default cmap1 for light backgrounds because of the "vertex" logic in plctrl.c. If someone actually likes the default cmap1 for light backgrounds they are welcome to add another cmap1 colour palette file corresponding to it.) Furthermore, I have made it easier to select these default colour palette files; when the actual argument of plspal0 is an empty string, cmap0_default.pal is chosen, and similarly for plspal1 and cmap1_default.pal. Finally, I have changed example 16 to change the colour palettes for each succeeding page. The new example 16 has revealed some device driver problems for the way that background colours are (not) supported. For -dev xwin the 4th page of example 16 stubbornly retains the white background of the previous pages rather than changing to the specified black background of cmap0_default.pal. There are also background colour errors for -dev qtwidget. I first spotted this for x16, but it turns out to be an issue for all examples. You can easily demonstrate this, by, e.g., running ./x10c -dev qtwidget -bg ffffff which should produce a white background but the resulting background colour is black. I suspect only a black background colour is supported for all qt devices. Alban, can you confirm (and hopefully fix) this issue? All other devices I have tried (xcairo, psc, psttfc, epscairo, and svg) produced correct colour results for all pages of example 16. Hazen, do you agree it is time to propagate pl[sg]pal[01] and example 16 changes to our other languages? Ideally, we will want to take care of this before our forthcoming release which is scheduled for early September. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
