I just rediscovered the -np (no pause) option which means the interactive plot goes through all pages and completes without any interaction from the user. It turns out all our interactive devices honour that option so I have used it in plplot_test/test_c_interactive.sh.in (revision 10823).
What this means in practical terms is that the ease of use of the test_interactive target has vastly improved (since you don't have to click through all the pages of the subset of the standard examples that are run for each interactive device). There are a few special interactive plots left which require intervention from the user, but the ease of use is vastly improved over what we had before with this target. The plots from the standard example subset with -np option do come and go so fast that you won't be able to see individual results and therefore rendering errors too clearly. However, the rendering errors are well known, and what is more important from the overall testing perspective is run-time errors. If you run the test like this; make -j4 -k test_interactive >& make_test_interactive.out you can capture any major run-time errors (such as the last two I posted to the list) quite easily. Now that the ease of use is vastly improved, I encourage everyone here to try the above test (or Windows equivalent with nmake or jom [which is a replacement for nmake which allows parallel builds/tests]) and report results in the table in README.release. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
