First, are any of you using plsmem() to obtain graphs w/o saving them to a file? Encouragement in the form of success stories or warnings of trouble spots would be greatly appreciated.
Another question that has arisen come in the form of image formats readily understood by the Smalltalk environment I am using, called Pharo and available at http://pharo-project.org/home. I am still struggling slightly to understand the various twists, but it appears that it is willing readily absorb images made up of RGB and an alpha value (4 bytes per pixel instead of 3). If I am reading thing correctly, I could allocate an array of RGB values, let PLplot draw on it, then use a C function to copy the memory into RGB+Alpha array for Pharo. Could Smalltalk do the memory manipulation? Yes, but there are usually great speed gains to be had by doing such looping in C, regardless of the details of how that is accomplished. The question for you is whether adding an alpha value has any interest to the future of PLplot? Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
