Thanks, Derek: That sounds useful, I'll try it! --Doug
[email protected] Software Engineer IV UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Derek Lamb wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
