Hi list, developing drivers for PLplot is sometimes difficult, since I don't know what the expected behavior is for certain situations. Or how the output should look like. For interactive drivers so far I always tried to mimic the xwin driver, but for Ubuntu 8.04 with Compiz turned on, this driver actually behaves not very nice, missing lines and so on.
So, my idea is, that we try to define behavior and look for certain situations. Since very likely no single driver will cover all situations we could try to have a list of situations and we decide democratic, what is the wanted behavior and which driver works like that. To give an example: Siutation: Running example 14 with the option -drv_opt xxx=1. Is the option supposed to be valid for both streams or only for the first opened? Solution: driver options at the command line should only be valid for the first stream. Reference driver: xwin, wxWidgets We could gather this infos in the wiki and create therefore an "abstract" reference driver. In the future it would be easier to write drivers, since there is a reference. What do you think about that? Apart from that you may think this is a good idea - would you as developers also contribute to this list (either situations and solutions)? That doesn't mean that drivers need to behave like the reference, but it should be guideline for new drivers. Thanks, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
