Re: [Plplot-general] how to get size (in pixel) of a string ?

2010-01-13 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alain, you are looking for plstrl(), I think, which returns the length of the string in mm. Regards, Arjen On 2010-01-13 16:15, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Hi I would like to draw a box containing the legend of the graph, in a box with semi transparent background. So i need to know the

Re: [Plplot-general] how to get size (in pixel) of a string ?

2010-01-13 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi Arjen Le 13/01/2010 à 16:26, Arjen Markus a écrit : Hi Alain, you are looking for plstrl(), I think, which returns the length of the string in mm. Yes :) This function is not listed in the documentation page, maybe it is worth adding it ? Thanks a lot Alain

Re: [Plplot-general] how to get size (in pixel) of a string ?

2010-01-13 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alain, I scanned the code :) But yes, if it is really part of the public API. (It should probably be anyway) Regards, Arjen On 2010-01-13 16:57, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Hi Arjen Le 13/01/2010 à 16:26, Arjen Markus a écrit : Hi Alain, you are looking for plstrl(), I think, which

Re: [Plplot-general] how to get size (in pixel) of a string ?

2010-01-13 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi Arjen Le 13/01/2010 à 17:00, Arjen Markus a écrit : Hi Alain, I scanned the code :) But yes, if it is really part of the public API. (It should probably be anyway) I jumped into the source too. I doubt plstrl is part of the public API: i cannot access to it from octave. and even if

Re: [Plplot-general] version octave of examples site

2010-01-13 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Also on the site i notice that the first links insided News send to an obsolete url (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id= ...) and only the last one is good : Site news archive : http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=2915 Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: [Plplot-general] version octave of examples site

2010-01-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-13 15:49+0100 Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Btw, I looked at the example page on the site, it seems that many (all?) octave examples are missing. I guess it is the same cause. Thanks for spotting that issue which I confirm and will fix. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Re: [Plplot-general] version octave of examples site

2010-01-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-13 15:49+0100 Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Also on the site i notice that the first links insided News send to an obsolete url (http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id= ...) and only the last one is good : Site news archive : http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=2915 Hi Alain:

Re: [Plplot-general] version octave of examples site

2010-01-13 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, The rest of this is addressed to Werner who is one of the movers behind our web site. Werner, do you agree there is no better link to individual news items? If so, should we wait a while longer for SourceForge to sort out their mess? Or should we give up and drop the

Re: [Plplot-general] version octave of examples site

2010-01-13 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, I'm quite sure, that there is a nice php script somewhere on sf.net which solves this issue. I'll go searching. The script we use seems to be broken. There is an rss feed available for the project news, the correct URL is

Re: [Plplot-general] how to get size (in pixel) of a string ?

2010-01-13 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:51:13PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: On 2010-01-13 16:15+0100 Alain Baeckeroot wrote: Hi I would like to draw a box containing the legend of the graph, in a box with semi transparent background. So i need to know the lenght (in pixel or win coordinates) of the