Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-09-25 14:36+0200 Mark de Wever wrote: > >> From Alan's mail in that thread I understood that not using offset in >> the other drivers was seen as a minor omission. I see some use for the >> offset parameter for the extcairo driver; eg you could add a border to >> the widget and by setting a proper clip rectangle you can avoid plpot to >> draw over that part of the widget. But at the moment I've no use for the >> offset value. > > The x,y offsets have nothing to do with the internals of plotting anything > (such as clipping) or with the plotting widget itself (such as widget > borders). Instead, those offsets are reserved exclusively (I agree with > Werner about that) for specifying the position of the widget relative to > the > overall screen. In this way, the PLplot -geometry option (for those drivers > who have implemented window offsets) should be interpreted exactly like the > X -geometry option. See "man X" for details about -geometry.
Then it seems I misunderstood your last mail about this subject. So the offsets of geometry are only useful for widgets the are shown in a Xwindow. That means I can ignore the offsets in my extcairo widget since it's not directly in a Xwindow. Regards, Mark de Wever ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
