If you use the Xwin driver for PLplot, you may have noticed this annoyance: covering up the window after a plot is made erases the contents of the plot until the next plotting command is issued. After the next command, all of the previous contents reappear.
I recently found that that annoyance can be eliminated by compiling the PLplot library with the option HAVE_PTHREAD=ON . If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution and installed PLplot from a package, then this has been enabled already. I am not sure about other distributions: I know the older Red Hat / Fedora distros I've worked on do not have this option enabled. I don't know about Mac or Windows--maybe it's not an issue. That being said, the default was recently changed in the PLplot SVN repository, so you can get it there, wait for 5.9.2 to come out, or wait a little longer for the next stable release (5.10) and for it to be enabled by default in the packages. Happy plotting! Derek _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
