I have been inactive recently with PLplot because of computer troubles (failing disk ==> computer replacement ==> install Debian testing), but all is well now so I will have some time to work on PLplot without distraction for the next little while.
So on to business. I was hoping not to do this again, but Hez and I came to a consensus that there was a necessity for yet another API change for pllegend where the current PLINT opt argument is split into PLINT position, and PLINT opt where the position argument is used to carry all the overall position bits. The point here is to relieve the current bit congestion for opt (just because we can overload all those different bits doesn't mean we should!) In addition we now use the following #defines #define PL_POSITION_LEFT 1 #define PL_POSITION_RIGHT 2 #define PL_POSITION_UPPER 4 #define PL_POSITION_LOWER 8 #define PL_POSITION_INSIDE 16 #define PL_POSITION_OUTSIDE 32 #define PL_POSITION_SUBPAGE 64 The point here is to have an independent namespace (PL_POSITION... rather than PL_LEGEND...) for the overall position-related bits. The last of the above, PL_POSITION_SUBPAGE is entirely new and will give users the option to express all coordinates (including the zero points of the standard positions and offsets from those positions in relative subpage coordinates rather than relative windows coordinate. A big benefit of these planned changes is it makes it simple for plcolorbar to use the same legend positioning logic as pllegend. The current status is I have just finished all C changes (except for implementation of the PL_POSITION_SUBPAGE bit logic) related to pllegend. The C results look fine. However, in order to avoid core C commits which break language components of PLplot, I am holding off doing the commit until I can propagate everything to C++, f77, java, ocaml, python, and octave bindings and examples. Once all those work, then I plan to commit everything I have done up to that point, then implement and commit the PL_POSITION_SUBPAGE logic, then (as soon as Hez has finished with his own planned plcolorbar changes) implement and commit full positioning logic in plcolorbar following what is done for pllegend. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
