On 2009-07-29 13:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Thanks for your bringing up the possibility of an 8-bit representation for > the command-line value of alpha. That would certainly work, but I prefer > the command-line values be consistent with the cmap0 related PLplot commands > which use 8-bit representations of rgb, and a floating representation of the > alpha value.
Now implemented (revision 10189). So to check device drivers for proper handling of semitransparent background colours, you don't have to edit cmap0 palette files any more. Instead, just use the -bg option with alpha specified, e.g., -bg 0000FF_0.1 Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
