On Mar 24, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote: >>> I am working on an application which requires plots to be displayed >>> within the context of the program's windows. In practice this means >>> that I needed plplot to have the ability to plot to a supplied X >>> Drawable rather than to an X window which plplot creates and manages >>> itself. >> >> Another thought along this line. How about a driver that would plot >> to a supplied cairo context? This is easy to get from e.g. Gdk, and >> it might provide some extra flexibility. Gtk on Windows might for >> example benefit from this approach. This driver could be called just >> "cairo" to emphasize its generic nature. > > It's a fair thought and probably not all that difficult to do. The > existing > cairo framework could be used, with an extension like I did for X > Drawables > being used to pass in an externally created cairo context. > > I could look into this in more detail but I won't have a lot of > time over > the next few weeks. If no one else beats me to it I'll pick up on > this when > time allows.
I've started on this, and decided to call the device "extcairo" for Cairo external context driver. While working on this, I noticed that for the xcairo driver with external drawable you clear the drawable before plotting. Any thoughts on whether it might be better to leave that to the end user in case they don't want the current contents of the drawable erased? This is the approach that Doug has taken with the memcairo driver. best, -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
