Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-05-11 09:55+0100 Alban Rochel wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Merging the interactive Qt driver I provided for plplot and the one we >> developed for QSAS, I realized that some of its behaviours could be >> discussed and could lead to making them evolve a little. Do you have a >> preference on how interactive drivers should manage line widths when the >> windows are rescaled? >> Let's take the example of a 2x window rescaling: >> - Making lines 2x thicker would allow to preserve the initial look of >> the plot <- this is the current Qt driver behaviour in plplot >> - Keeping the lines widths would allow to see more detail on the zoomed >> plot <- this is the current Qt driver behaviour in QSAS >> I don't think there is an obvious answer, but you may already have >> debated this issue, and may have sensible propositions. > > I don't use expanded or zoomed plots that much, but our tk device driver has > zooming functionality, and it appears to keep the line widths the same. This > seems the sensible choice from the legibility perspective so I think > changing over the PLplot qt line widths to be constant for rescaled/zoomed > plots is a good idea. > > Alan
Thanks for your advice Alan. Unless I get relevant arguments against this idea, I will change this feature in the next update of the Qt driver (with the Mac fix). This will also help us keep the QSAS and plplot drivers "synchronized" more easily. Alban ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
