On 2013-12-04 12:26-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan,
> just to keep you informed: > I was experimenting with a slightly different set-up of the runAllDemos.tcl program so that I can reserve more screen space for the actual plot. So my idea was to put the buttons in the default toplevel window and the plstdwin/plframe widget in a second toplevel window, as the plstdwin command determines the size of the toplevel window and the plframe widget contains the graphics. > This did not give the desired result: the graphical window remains empty and the examples are finished immediately. > An alternative would be to use a smaller font than the default (determined by a cooperation of pldefault.tcl and the X Window server - the first determines what font family to use and the second determines the actual size of the font) I think your first idea is a good one; the graphics area should be completely independent of the buttons area and vice versa except that they obviously must have a common width. So I encourage you to follow up that idea (perhaps post-release) by figuring out what the implementation issue was. I assume your second idea of reducing the font size is an indirect method of reducing the height of the button area. That idea (or any other alternative to reduce the height of the button area) is worth pursuing simply so the buttons don't consume nearly as much height of the user's actual screen. But relating this to your first idea, the height of the graphics area (and thus its aspect ratio) must be completely independent of the height of the buttons area (and vice versa). 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
