Pierre Kleiber wrote:
I want to use contourLines() to get contour line coordinate vectors, but
I don't want to make a plot. However contourLines() insists on
opening a graphics device. Is there a way tell it not to do this?
contourLines() calls .Internal(contourLines(...)), and that calls
do_contourlines in plot3d.c, and that gets the current graphics device,
hence activating one if there isn't one (I think), and passes it to
GEcontourLines... which then seems to do nothing with it at all.
I just removed 'dd' from the call to GEcontourLines and the arg list
to GEcontourLines, fixed GraphicsEngine.h to match, recompiled, and now
my contourLines() function doesn't try to make a new graphics window. I
can't see GEcontourLines being called from anywhere else, but there may
be code that calls it, so possibly a better idea may be to pass a NULL
to it from GEcontourLines to keep the API the same.
There are some comments scattered around the code about how
contourLines shouldnt really be a graphics function, so I'm guessing
there's some thought going into this already by the developers.
Another possible quick fix for unix systems may be to start a
PostScript graphics device with file="/dev/null" so that the graphics
output disappears into thin air.
Baz
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