Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:59:48PM -0700, David MacMahon wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 21:42 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > > > >> I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. > >> Is there a reason for the double pointer? It

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
Dave, I'm content to be voted down on this, but a performance argument is a stretch: how can one possibly fit enough legend text on a graph to cause a CPU any stress at all? The first real use I made of PLplot was to plot 500,000 sample time series; copying a few hundred bytes (max) of text wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 21:59-0700 David MacMahon wrote: > Does the library strdup the passed in strings, render them before returning, > or just copy the pointers for later rendering? Hi Dave: It renders the text with plptex( text_x_world + text_justification * text_width0, ty, 0.1, 0.0, text_

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Bill, On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:19 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > a performance argument is a stretch I agree, that's why I prefaced my comments with... >> For the smallish amounts of >> legend text it probably doesn't matter that much either way Since plotting is inherently much more number-heavy

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 15:18-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Note also these Greek-letter variations are all available in the same > font. So it is not a matter of suddenly changing fonts in the middle > of a string. Instead, it is using the same font with different Hershey > and therefore UCS4 indices repres