On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:36 AM, zentara <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:29:12 -0700 > Karl Glazebrook <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Sorry I have not been following the threads on Prima. >> >>Is Prima ready for prime time? I recall some people complaining about >>installation issues. True we have that for PGPLOT but at least we have all >>the basic plotting already covered. >> >>Does the GUI look modern? >> >>Karl > > Hi, > My impressions: > > The Prima user code looks like Tk, and it installed easily for me on linux. > > As far as a "modern look" goes, I didn't see anything resembling Themes > in it, so you need to color and font adjust your widgets manually. > > Some things which I liked from going thru the examples: > 1. Supports semi-transparency in colors.
To clarify: Prima supports setting a single color in a palette as transparent (classic gif and icon "transparent" color strategy). It does not (to my knowledge) support alpha transparency (in the sense of semi-transparent color that you get with png and svg files). > 2. PDL-Graphics-Prima makes these really nice plots, > which will auto-zoom if your resize your window, and within > the plot window, you can mouse-drag the plot around, with the > axis ticks adjusting automatically. > I have never seen that before, and is quite cool. > > 0m, > zentara > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
