On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:46:05PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2014-03-07 10:06-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > >I was just going to go ahead and change example 8 to use > >the sombrero function by default. This reminded me of a > >long running "feature" of plplot which I have found irksome > >in the past, namely that boolean command options can only > >set an option to true (1) not false (0). > > Perhaps I am missing something, but wouldn't it be straightforward to > implement such options exactly like we implement driver options, > where, for example, we can set -drvopt text_clipping=0 or -drvopt > text_clipping=1 for the xcairo device?
You could do in this way, but that would require more recoding. It is as much a matter of principle that it seems perverse to have a boolean flag which you can switch on, but not off. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
