Hi guys > Hazon, Jonathan: I would second the idea of having a memory buffer be the > target at some level.
I have no arguments with this. However, a memory buffer is really targetting a slightly different problem. An X Drawable is a server-side resource and therefore there are possibly performance advantages to using a Drawable if an X Window was the ultimate destination of the plot. In my mind the ability to output to an X Drawable complements something like memcairo. One would use memcairo if, for example, direct editing of the image were desired. > I would be interested in getting memcairo working--this allows for > powerful direct manipulation of images via PDL, plplot and image > libraries. I have used this to good effect on several occasions, but the > current limitation are the ugly fonts used by the plain vanilla 'mem' > driver. For sure. As I said, I do not see the X Drawable extension to the xcairo device as a replacement for memcairo. They are both addressing different problem spaces IMHO. Besides this, the X Drawable extension doesn't really add a lot of additional code to the xcairo driver while making plplot directly accessible to almost all Xwindows developers. This is why I am keen to see it merged. Regards jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
