On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2012-08-13 14:20-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
>> So far so good, but there is a lot more rev ==>alt_hue_path source
>> code changes to come since plscmap1l (or cmap1l) is mentioned in quite
>> a large number of different files in src, bindings, and examples.
> 
> Revision 12212 finished off this change to our core C library, and
> the language bindings.  These changes only build tested so far.
> 
> @Jerry: The rev misnomer and bad documentation of that flag had
> propagated (through no fault of your own) to an extraordinary degree
> to the Ada bindings.  So there were some fairly intrusive changes
> there.  Those, in fact, constituted a minor API change so revision 12212
> also includes the necessary changes to examples/ada, and Ada users
> will also have to make corresponding changes to their source code.
> But I think addressing this misunderstanding is well worth this minor pain.

Thanks, Alan. I believe that Ada weirdness was a result of my finding a 
workaround to the C API calling for a null pointer in some cases. Ada-folk 
hardly know what a null pointer is. 8^) I'll make a note to make sure this is 
in the Ada docs.
Jerry

> 
> @Andrew: when you get around to updating the DocBook alt_hue_path
> documentation, you should look at my updated doxygen documentation
> in plctrl.c where I made a first attempt at that.  Of course, if
> you can think of better wording, don't hesitate to change the doxygen
> documentation some more.
> 
> @Everybody: there will be more to come (probably within a day or so as
> a break from my other work) with the remaining examples to finish off
> _all_ the rev ==>alt_hue_path code changes.
> 
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
> 
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> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
> 
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> software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
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> __________________________
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