Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DEV

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-05 15:35-0800 David MacMahon wrote: >> What's the purpose of this variable? > > It is used to specify a "default" driver that will be used if no > other driver is specified. If it is not defined and no driver is > specified, then the user is prompted with a driver list. > > For example

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DEV

2010-01-05 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 5, 2010, at 14:55 , Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:24 PM, David MacMahon wrote: > >> I just grepped for "getenv" in the source tree and didn't find >> anything that looked like PGPLOT's use of the "PGPLOT_DEV" >> environment variable. > > What's the purpose of th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Interactive plotting

2010-01-05 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Werner, On Jan 5, 2010, at 14:54 , Werner Smekal wrote: >> Is there a way to make a stream be "synchronous" (i.e. unbuffered)? > > I think, this has more to do with the driver you are using, i.e. > the plplot library processes all plot commands immediately, but the > driver only updates t

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DEV

2010-01-05 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Dave, On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:24 PM, David MacMahon wrote: > I just grepped for "getenv" in the source tree and didn't find > anything that looked like PGPLOT's use of the "PGPLOT_DEV" > environment variable. What's the purpose of this variable? Regards, Werner > > Assuming I didn't just over

[Plplot-devel] Interactive plotting

2010-01-05 Thread David MacMahon
I'm working on creating Ruby bindings to PLplot, much like the Ruby bindings to PGPLOT (http://pgplot.rubyforge.org/). I've gotten a fair amount of the API done and the first seven or so examples "ported". I'll be happy to share my work once it gets a little more complete. I've been test

Re: [Plplot-devel] Clipped plots using epsqt and pdfqt on OS X

2010-01-05 Thread Jerry
On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Jerry wrote: Output from any example using epsqt and pdfqt on OS X clip the right 20% or so of the figure. The black background is rotated 90 degrees from what it should be. It's as if the figure is in landscape mode and the black background is in portrait mode and t

[Plplot-devel] PLPLOT_DEV

2010-01-05 Thread David MacMahon
I just grepped for "getenv" in the source tree and didn't find anything that looked like PGPLOT's use of the "PGPLOT_DEV" environment variable. Assuming I didn't just overlook it, was this an explicit design decision or is it just that nobody has asked for it? If the former, why? If the

[Plplot-devel] [ plplot-Bugs-2926494 ] Leading period for Tcl/Tk pathnames should not be required

2010-01-05 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2926494, was opened at 2010-01-05 13:34 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by airwin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102915&aid=2926494&group_id=2915 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the com

[Plplot-devel] [ plplot-Bugs-2926482 ] ex 01 -save ==> bad superscripts in psc output for xcairo

2010-01-05 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2926482, was opened at 2010-01-05 13:14 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by airwin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102915&aid=2926482&group_id=2915 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the com

Re: [Plplot-devel] driver device numbers?

2010-01-05 Thread Hazen Babcock
Andrew Ross wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:34:07PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: >> On 2010-01-03 21:55-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> How important are the device numbers? I'm hoping to add a "pure" windows >>> cairo driver, wincairo, but it appears that the logical device number >>> has been ta

Re: [Plplot-devel] Example 30, page 2, using psc is messed up on OS X

2010-01-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-05 01:03-0700 Jerry wrote: > The second page of example 30 using the psc driver on OS X is a giant > red near-rectangle with a bit of black border. The ps and psttf device drivers do not (currently) support alpha transparency. So a red transparency gradient as in example 30 page 2 is

[Plplot-devel] Example 30, page 2, using psc is messed up on OS X

2010-01-05 Thread Jerry
The second page of example 30 using the psc driver on OS X is a giant red near-rectangle with a bit of black border. The red rectangle is actually made up of a whole lot of small overlapping red rectangles. Jerry --

[Plplot-devel] Clipped plots using epsqt and pdfqt on OS X

2010-01-05 Thread Jerry
Output from any example using epsqt and pdfqt on OS X clip the right 20% or so of the figure. The black background is rotated 90 degrees from what it should be. It's as if the figure is in landscape mode and the black background is in portrait mode and the figure is being clipped by the bac