On 2014-05-01 09:49+0100 Thomas Marsh wrote: > [...]What I want to do is not quite > as you summarise; sorry for not being clear. Its not so much that I want to > resume plotting -- I imagine plflush would be good for this -- but I want > the plot to finish but then to persist and not simply disappear. I > sometimes have multiple such plots in windows on my screen, potentially > produced by independent scripts. When I am done with them I can click the > "X" at the top-right to get rid of them. I have not managed to replicate > this way of working with plplot. [...]
Hi Tom: I have been following your conversation with Arjen with interest, and I think what you describe above is exactly what we provide. But I might be interpreting what you said above incorrectly so let me make clear what we provide with an exact example. In the build tree, if I build the xwin device and one of the simplest examples with the following commands: # Create xwin device and all its dependencies make xwin # Create a particular C example and all its dependencies make x00c then when I run examples/c/x00c -dev xwin the plot persists on the screen and the C example does not quit. In fact, I can resize that plot so it does remain active until I exit from it (by hitting the enter key or clicking on the button to destroy the X window). So it appears to me this default behaviour of the xwin device is exactly what you described above. You expressed and interest in Python so here is the equivalent there # Create xwin device and all its dependencies make xwin # Create Python binding for PLplot make _plplotcmodule_fixed # Populate build tree with python examples make python_examples Then run examples/python/x00 -dev xwin and that plot has the same desired characteristics as the C version above. Will you try either the C version or Python version of the concrete example above, and let us know what (if anything) the difficulty might be? 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
