Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-05-21 02:35-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. > > In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the > > severely limited interactive GUI devices that have been implem

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-21 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2007-05-18 22:35-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > This feature sounds pretty straightforward to add. Would we pass back the > > key > > pressed in the keysym element of the PLGraphicsIn structure? How about > > the > > Encoding, i.e. ASCII? utf8? ucs4? > ... > I

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-21 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Alan W. Irwin writes: > However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. > In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the > severely limited interactive GUI devices that have been implemented so far. > For example, the -dev gcw "GUI" allo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-05-18 22:35-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > On May 17, 2007, at 2:12 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Since display device drivers potentially have interactive considerations >> to >> take into account (how to move from one page to the next, full cursor >> capability [see below], and other GUI c

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-18 Thread Hazen Babcock
On May 17, 2007, at 2:12 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-05-16 23:18-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> On May 16, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> [...]Speaking of which, do you have any near-term plans for >>> xwinttf or the >>> further Cairo devices you proposed? >> >> Near term? I

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-05-17 09:16-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > "Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. >> In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the >> severely limited interactive GUI devices that

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-17 Thread Jim Dishaw
"Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. > In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the > severely limited interactive GUI devices that have been implemented so far. I agree, but I thi

[Plplot-devel] Cairo-related devices and interactive capabilities of PLplot

2007-05-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Hazen, As you suggested, I am going to put this thread on plplot_devel because it will probably be of interest to the other developers there. On 2007-05-16 23:18-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On May 16, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> [...]Speaking of which, do you have any near-term