On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Fabio D'Alfonso <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
> I think that the support for output to images is relevant, mainly for
> research and paper production, but to the appeal for new users the on
> screen capabilities matter much more.
> That is because it is that 'natural' output device in an interactive
> analysis of data. Printed versions will be the finalized output, intended
> for print.
>
> I think that the support from pgplot and plplot is quite good, considering
> the value of a picture based on the the value of data represented, as in in
> general in Science. In a common usage, or before "the discovery" the
> ability to get ready and with a friendly startup can make some difference.
> I actually do not know the story of grwnd.exe. It is relevant that it
> allows pgplot working on windows. I was just thinking that a boundary as
> the graphic output could benefit from a more rock solid component, being
> what the user first sees.
> At a mixed linux/windows user could show as a patch.
>

Actually, adding to PDL's visualization libraries is a major target for
2.4.11. I will be adding my work on Prima (which is highly interactive) and
Craig and Dima will add their work with GnuPlot, which is very powerful and
flexible.


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> On 1/16/2012 1:46 PM, Sisyphus wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabio D'Alfonso"
> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> To: "Sisyphus" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Perldl] PLPlot on Windows/XMing - PLPLOT_LIB Solved
>
>
> Hi,
> solved, that was the PLPLOT_LIB to be set.
>
>
> Phew !!
> The need to set PLPLOT_LIB is documented ... but very easy to miss :-)
>
> Thanks
>
>
> No problem.
>
> I personally don't use either PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT or
> PDL::Graphics::PLplot but, despite the appearance of the unwelcome pop-up
> box, I was struck by the simplicity of:
>
> ######################
> use warnings;
> use PDL;
> use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT;
>
> $a = rfits("m51.fits");
> dev($^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? '/GW' : '/XSERVE');
> imag  $a;
> ######################
>
> Can the same be displayed in the plplot graphics window ? .... that is,
> with a script of comparable simplicity ?
>
> Personally, for that particular script (and using PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT),
> I think I would replace
>
> dev($^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? '/GW' : '/XSERVE');
> with
> dev($^O =~ /MSWin32/ ? '/PNG' : '/XSERVE');
>
> and then view the resultant png file. (No pop-ups at all.)
>
> Fabio, as far as I can tell, there's no easy way of avoiding that pop-up
> on Windows whenever a script that uses the grwnd.exe exits.
> The best I could do is provide a grwnd.exe whose pop-up provides an option
> for "closing"/"not closing" the grwnd.exe window. (I think that such a
> grwnd.exe exists, though I haven't located it yet.)
> The grwnd.exe that's currently provided by the 32-bit PGPLOT ppm package
> can only "close" the window ... the "do not close" option is missing :-(
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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