[Plplot-devel] Version 6?

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, Since we are considering a number of changes, such as fixing error handling, that would break backwards compatibility anyway I propose that we think a bit about all the other things that we might like to change, perhaps bringing us to version 6 of PLplot. So, my proposals in no particu

Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
> From: Norman Goldstein > > I agree, I don't see that plplot would need to spin or in any other way > manipulate the 3d plots. It would be up to the programmer to have the > GL context wrapped in a 3D GL viewer, for example, if that kind of > functionality is desired. The big change is that as

[Plplot-devel] Shapefile incorrectly displayed

2015-03-20 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi everyone, I know we are in a code freeze, but I ran into a curious problem with the new plmapfill routines to handle "shape files". While the Plplot example x19 works very nicely, I have a shape file where this is not the case. It may have to do with the use of UTM (x/y) coordinates instea

[Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating > this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for the > display of the resulting bitmaps. This would finally solve the problem > of the text looking slightly differ

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" wrote: > On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating >> this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for the >> display of the resulting bitmaps. This would f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" > wrote: > >> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >>> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating >>> this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 03/20/2015 03:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> >> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" >> wrote: >> >>> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating this to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >> >>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" >>> wrote: >>> On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-20 16:38-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Personally I don't like either unicode pathway as they both lead to heavy > code duplication in the drivers, fiddly driver specific text rendering issues > that are not always that easy to sort out and the sprawl of text rendering > across multipl