Hi Phil: On 2017-01-30 10:17-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
> Hi Alan > > So I think here are my priorities, in no particular order: > > 1) wxWidgets Docs - the driver doc is currently well out of date and > the binding docs are non-existent. I have rewritten the driver docs > and started on the bindings. As you said in your release notes the > docs are probably still a weak point and I'm a firm believer that a > library is only as good as it's documentation - clever features are no > god if the users don't know they exist or how to use them. That is a really good way to express the documentation issue. I think we are now headed in the right direction there, but there is still lots more to do, and I am glad you are planning to help with that task. > > 2) The fill bug where the whole plot gets accidentally filled - I > can't remember if that still exits or if a workaround fix was added. I will take responsibility for that issue (see my separate post on that). > > 3) I have on my old to do list something about the selectable region > in x03.3 not being implemented. I should look at that. > > 4) Plexit. I agree this really needs sorting. However I found at least > one side effect that we would need to deal with - I'll send another > email out immediately after this one. > > 5) I'll add that incorrect background colour to my list. > > 6) I would like to add some useful additional features to the > wxPLplotstream API that are particularly wxWidgets relevant. This > would be some additional overloaded constructors and perhaps some > features for plotting - for example it would be nice to be able to set > the actual font face so that in a wxWidgets application a programmer > could use a font dialog to ask the user which font they would like to > use and then use it. This isn't currently possible at the moment where > we just set the family. These remaining steps all sound good to me. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
