Hi Torquil,
thanks again for this report. I made changes to wxwidgets driver which
should at least partially resolve your problems.
>
> /* Driver wxwidgets: Much slower than xcairo when not
> including plsetopt("drvopt", "smooth=0"), else about as
> as fast as xcairo, maybe a tad faster.
If you don't set the smooth option to 0 (it's set to 1 by default),
the font will be plotted antialized. This looks rather pretty, but is
very slow compared to the non-antialized case. So in your case, set
smooth always to 0. You should also be able to improve the plotting
speed a little bit, by setting the antialized option to 0 (it's also
set to 1 by default) - here the lines, etc. are plotted antialized,
looks very nice, but has small impact on the speed (about 10-20%).
Only in case your plplot version supports this option.
>
> With pgclear() as below: it only plots some of the box plus
> the tickmark-numbers, very flickering, with no
> lines inside the plot. Only the first frame has a clearly
> visible box (a different problem that is fixed using the
> smooth=0 option). Using -db has no effect.
There is no db option in the wxwidgets driver, since it's used by
default. In order to improve the time needed for a plot, the wxWidgets
driver plots into a memory canvas and only updates the window after
about 5000 commands (lines, fills, etc.). It also doesn't copy the
whole window, only parts of it, which changed. The reason why you
didn't see much when using pgclear() was, that I didn't update the
window before I cleared it :) Therefore much of what was plotted never
made it to the screen :).
Anyway, I commited the change to the svn repository and if you compile
plplot from the repository, there should be now no flickering and nice
animation of your plot.
>
> Without pgclear(): Makes a plot that filles a disk, but
> very slowly compared to xwin and xcairo. -db has no
> effect.
Sure. But shouldn't be much slower if you use the smooth=0 option.
>
> Since pgclear() doesn't work, I found I could use pgadv(0)
> together with the -np option. Gives lots of flickering, more
> than xcairo */
I can see that too, but I have still to investigate why this happens.
>
>
Regards,
Werner
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