Hi Arjen: To substantially reduce the maintenance burden introduced by bindings/tcl/plplot_parameters.h, I have created (as of revision 11563) a custom target, check_tcl_parameters, that uses the sed script bindings/tcl/global_defines.sed to check the consistency of bindings/tcl/plplot_parameters.h with the #defines in bindings/swig-support/plplotcapi.i. (The sed script also appends a definition of PL_PI which should prove useful.) I have followed the directions in the top of the new version of bindings/tcl/plplot_parameters.h to make everything consistent.
The result is that PL_PI and everything #defined in bindings/swig-support/plplotcapi.i should be accessible from Tcl as 122 (!) namespaced variables. This change gives us the opportunity of replacing locally defined variables (such as pi, MAG_COLOR, etc.) in the examples by the namespaced variables defined in plplot_parameters.h. Would you be willing to take advantage of that opportunity by doing the requisite changes in the Tcl examples? That would serve as a nice demonstration to our users of how to access those namespaced variables while getting rid of a lot of redundant local variables. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
