Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-09-18 11:10+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: >> On 18.09.2009, at 10:21, Mark de Wever wrote: >>> The attached patch shows the modification I did to try to resize the >>> plot area and move the location of its origin in that test. The >>> resizing works, but the modification to the origin doesn't. It also >>> seems the origin is undocumented in the plplot documentation, so I >>> wonder whether it's supposed to work or not. >> >> AFAIK, should these parameters change the size of the plot area in a >> window (and therefore the size of the window) and the position of the >> window. At least the xwin driver implemented it that way, and I did >> the same for the wxWidgets driver. Other drivers may ignore position >> parameters. > > I agree the geometry option for the command line wasn't fully documented. > I have now updated that (revision 10421).
Thanks for updating the documentation. > Note, that option or the equivalent plspage command can set xlength, > ylength, > xoffset, and yoffset. Supplementing what Werner said, we have the > following results: <snip> > That is, a lot of drivers pay attention to [xy]length set by -geometry or > plspage, but relatively few currently pay attention to [xy]offset set with > the same means. However, that deficiency should be easy to rectify for, > e.g., xcairo and extqcairo, and I would be happy to accept a patch to that > effect. I would also be happy to accept a similar patch for qtwidget and > extqt. Thanks for the confirmation that the geometry offsets should work, but that it isn't implemented in all drivers at the moment. Regards, Mark de Wever ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
