[Plplot-devel] Implementation of plgesc_string

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Several of the routines in src/plbox.c had snprintf calls similar to the following: snprintf( string, STRING_LEN, "(x10#u%d#d)", (int) scale ); That, of course, was wrong since it assumed the current PLplot string escape character was always going to be '#' (which is usually the case, but not alw

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-11-15 13:45- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > the full command-line is split up into pieces, where argv0 is the name of the > script that is being > run and argv the list of command-line arguments - so a trifle different than > the C convention. > The name of the executable is foun

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, the full command-line is split up into pieces, where argv0 is the name of the script that is being run and argv the list of command-line arguments - so a trifle different than the C convention. The name of the executable is found in [info nameofexecutable]. While that could be anything

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-11-14 07:17- Arjen Markus wrote: > I will have a look at the color issues and the hack in tkdemos. Hi Arjen: Before I sign off to get some delayed sleep, I have just had an idea about a replacement for that hack. If tkdemos.tcl has access to the wish and plserver command line, then

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Ross
On Friday 15 Nov 2013 01:35:04 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Arjen: > > This is a response to one of your older messages that I initially missed > in the mail mess I was dealing with. > > On 2013-11-14 07:17- Arjen Markus wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > yes, I have seen the various commit messsages.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: This is a response to one of your older messages that I initially missed in the mail mess I was dealing with. On 2013-11-14 07:17- Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > yes, I have seen the various commit messsages. Many thanks for this work! > > I will have a look at the color issues

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen (again): On 2013-11-15 00:24-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]I use the following cmake configuration: > > rm -rf /home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/build_dir/* \ > /home/software/plplot_svn/installcmake > > cd /home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/build_dir > > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of Tcl and friends

2013-11-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Arjen: On 2013-11-13 16:32-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > The other issue I asked you to investigate still remains; the > incredible hack in tkdemos.tcl (and accompanying instructions in > examples/tk/README.tkdemos to make that incredible hack work) to > distinguish between the cases when tkdemo