> On May 13, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Aaron Hexamer <hexa...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Alan, > > I'm a little confused by the statement about copying code from Jim's driver > to wingcc. I just assumed that wingcc was named as such because maybe > PLplot was first ported to windows with support only for the gcc compiler? > I.e. is there really anything specific to gcc about wingcc anymore. I > recall using it with MSVC when I first got started with PLplot. If Jim's > driver did everything that wingcc does, but without plfreetype, would there > be a need for both? > > Aaron. >
I think the smart thing to do is to have one Windows driver. I can't recall any differences that could not be handled without an #ifdef block. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 5:06 PM > To: Jim Dishaw > Cc: Aaron Hexamer; PLplot development list > Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Using Window's raw API for shapes and text > >> On 2015-05-13 14:03-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >> I still have the revised windows driver that I can blow the dust off and > offer as a possible replacement. > > Hi Jim: > > As I recall, you had a lot of interesting ideas for your Windows device > driver so I hope you do integrate that into PLplot in the near future > regardless of whether or not it uses the deprecated plfreetype approach to > render text. Of course, it would be great if it uses a native Windows > unicode API to render text using whatever Windows system fonts happen to be > installed since that approach could be straightforwardly copied over to > wingcc to get rid of the last use of plfreetype. > > 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); the Time Ephemerides project > (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package > (plplot.sf.net); 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 > __________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
