Hi Phil: Your recent efficiency improvements means it is now a lot more convenient to test the wxwidgets device. So I have done that and noticed the following issues that appear to be caused by your efficiency improvements.
* The -np option no longer works properly. For example, before these efficency improvements examples/c/x08c -dev wxwidgets -np would (extremely slowly) render each page of that example and then exit. Now, the rendering for each page simply presents a a black screen before the exit occurs. Sometimes, just as the example exits you will see a quick flash of the last page, but usually not. In addition, the example now produces the following WARNING message for 5 of the pages *** PLPLOT WARNING *** Failed to get text size from wxPLViewer - timeout Without the -np option, none of these problems occur, and the time to render all the example 8 pages has a noticeable efficiency improvement consistent with the length of time the black screen is rendered when the -np option is used. * examples/c/x17c -dev wxwidgets shows huge efficiency improvements, but it has changed from an interactive plot showing all the intermediate results to a black screen until the very end which then shows the final results. In other words, the interactive nature of this example has been lost. * examples/c/x26c -dev wxwidgets shows something is wrong with the delivery of string-length calculations between -dev wxwidgets and wxPLViewer. (For this case I am not sure whether this issue was introduced right when you implemented the new string-length calculation for wxwidgets or is the result of your recent efficiency changes.) The delivery of string-length information should be done independently for each page of this example (since the Russian text of the second page is longer than the English text of the first page). What goes on here is that _for each page of the example_ the pllegend call internally calls plstrl which then requests the wxwidgets device to deliver plsc->string_length (used by pllegend to adjust legend-box size) before wxwidgets actually renders the string. Of course, the complication is that -dev wxwidgets measures string lengths and renders those strings indirectly via wxPLViewer. So obviously there has to be communications between -dev wxwidgets and wxPLViewer for every different page of example 26 to get that done properly. Instead what happens now is that examples/c/x26c -dev wxwidgets incorrectly finishes (i.e., you get a command-line prompt and/or time results if requested) as soon as the first page of that example has been rendered by wxPLViewer. And when the second page is viewed by hitting the enter key for the wxPLViewer GUI, the legend box (which should be controlled by the string-length calculation for the Russian text of that page) appears to be the same size as the first page so that the longer Russian text for the second page overflows the legend box for that page. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
