Hi, Hez, On Mar 18, 2010, at 21:16 , Hezekiah M. Carty wrote:
> The checkerboard background seems to be a semi-standard approach for > viewing transparent images (Gimp uses something similar). I'm not > sure it is a good idea for our interactive devices though, as it makes > it very difficult to see the details of a plot. I would prefer to > keep the white background as the standard for non-transparent windows > as it maintains better readability. I agree that a checkerboard (or even transparent) "back-background" makes it harder to see the details of a plot with a non-opaque background on interactive devices, but I think one use case for even requesting a non-opaque background on an interactive device in the first place is to preview how different alpha values would look on a non-interactive device. In this case, some type of patterned "back- background" (e.g. a checkerboard) would be more useful than a single color background, IMHO. If one is primarily interested in actually visualizing data on an interactive device (oh, what a concept! :-)), one would probably choose to use the default opaque background. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
