Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi David, Alan, On 2010-01-07 07:43, David MacMahon wrote: > > I'm willing to try my hand at adapting some other functions to use > this technique. As far as I can tell, the list of functions that > could benefit from this are... > > c_plgriddata (*) > c_plmesh (**) > c_plmeshc (**) > c_pl

Re: [Plplot-devel] windows / mingw / install tree examples problem

2010-01-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-03 23:47-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]Try the just-committed revision 10735. On Linux with embedded blanks in > the > top-level directory name for the source, build, and install tree, I finally > got "make test_noninteractive" to work for both the build tree (with > -DBUILD_TEST=O

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 22:43:44 (-0800) David MacMahon writes: > On Jan 6, 2010, at 17:14 , Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > Some centuries ago I did endow the contourer with the function > > evaluator > > technique to deal with the issue of C vs Fortran vs whatever array > > storag

Re: [Plplot-devel] [PATCH] Get default device from PLPLOT_DEV environment var

2010-01-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-06 16:30-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 16:55 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> On 2010-01-05 15:35-0800 David MacMahon wrote: >> >>> export PLPLOT_DEV=xcairo >> >> That feature does appear to be useful, and I would be happy to receive a >> patch implementing that. > > Gr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 6, 2010, at 17:14 , Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Some centuries ago I did endow the contourer with the function > evaluator > technique to deal with the issue of C vs Fortran vs whatever array > storage. > Worked out nicely IMO. Would've liked to upgrade all array- > handling functions > i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 17:00:40 (-0800) David MacMahon writes: > Hi, Alan, > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the two-dimensional > > arrays in our API, we should decide which convention we should use > >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Alan, On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the two-dimensional > arrays in our API, we should decide which convention we should use > in our > API and convert to it if/when we decide to do other major API > breakage we > have

[Plplot-devel] [PATCH] Get default device from PLPLOT_DEV environment var

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 5, 2010, at 16:55 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-01-05 15:35-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > >> export PLPLOT_DEV=xcairo > > That feature does appear to be useful, and I would be happy to > receive a > patch implementing that. Great! I've tested the attached patch and it seems to do the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:03:42 -0800 (PST) "Alan W. Irwin" wrote: > > Arjen, from the fortran wrappers do we use the C order >for all our > two-dimensional arrays or just for the plsurf3d related >functions? > > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the >two-dimensional > arrays i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-06 09:31+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi David, > > while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these > years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently > have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, > using Fortran, C and a cou

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Arjen, On Jan 6, 2010, at 0:31 , Arjen Markus wrote: > while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these > years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently > have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, > using Fortran, C and a coup

Re: [Plplot-devel] Interactive plotting

2010-01-06 Thread Werner Smekal
(This email didn't get through yesterday, so I post it again). Hi David, On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:45 PM, David MacMahon wrote: > 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

Re: [Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Andrew, On Jan 6, 2010, at 0:01 , Andrew Ross wrote: > We'd of course welcome any contributions for a ruby binding to plplot. I'll be happy to contribute it. It's coming along. > How are you generating it? I'd strongly recommend looking at swig > (http://www.swig.org) for automatically gen

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi David, while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, using Fortran, C and a couple of other languages), I must point out that plsurf3d u

[Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
As I said in an earlier message, I'm working on Ruby bindings to PLplot that are analogous to the Ruby bindings to PGPLOT. Like the PGPLOT Ruby bindings, I've chosen to use/support the Ruby "NArray" extension (http://narray.rubyforge.org/) for data arrays. I just implemented the plsurf3d

[Plplot-devel] Ruby bindings

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:45:11PM -0800, David MacMahon wrote: > 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