On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > On 2009-11-17 13:59-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > >> >> I've closed a request on the feature tracker for the WM_CLASS property >> to be set in the xwin driver in order to set the window title. Firstly, >> I don't think this is the way to set the window title. This got me >> thinking though, and I discovered that there is a -plwindow option for >> setting the title of the window. Currently this is only honoured by the >> xwin and tk drivers. I've updated the qt driver to use it. I've looked >> at the cairo drivers. There the window title is already set to PLplot, >> but it is also modified to include the string "Press enter or right click >> to continue" at the end of each page. It would be good to be consistent >> between drivers. Do people think this additional functionality is useful >> and should be propagated to other drivers, while at the same time >> honouring -plwindow? > > There are several issues you have touched on. > > As far as the default window title is concerned, I think it should identify > the device (some of them do not identify themselves as I discovered when > running "make test_interactive"). I also like what the wxwidgets device > driver does which is to add some information about which fundamental version > of the device driver is being used. I don't think there is such a > fundamental choice for any other interactive device, but I thought I should > mention it for the wxwidgets case. >
I am ok with this idea as long as it could be overridden by the -plwindow flag and from the PLplot API. If the user selects the plot device they want to use then they would likely have this information fresh in their mind. If the plot device is somehow hard-coded there is likely a reason for this and showing the output device in the window frame may provide more confusion that it alleviates. Once proper -plwindow command line support is added to the supported interactive output devices it could be used to show this information when desired. > I think adding the prompt "Press enter or right click to continue" to the > title is probably overkill for xcairo. I lean instead toward outputting > that prompt _once_ (for all interactive device drivers) to stderr. You may > also want to add some information about terminating the device as well > to the stderr prompt for all interactive devices. > I do feel that this prompt is worth keeping around, at least as a default. It will help with user questions like the recent thread on plplot-general regarding plend not automatically closing an interactive plot window. It also makes it clear to whoever is viewing the plot window that the system is waiting for their input. > I like your idea of honoring -plwindow for all interactive devices. However, > plargs.c should be changed to no longer hide that option and also to change > the string describing that option (which is too Tk specific now) that is > displayed by the -h option. > > One additional question is whether -plwindow will completely overwrite the > default window title for each interactive device or append to it. I lean > toward complete overwrite. > > Also, I wouldn't bother with any of the interactive devices (e.g., gcw, ntk) > that are already deprecated. I agree with each of these points. Hez -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic 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 Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
