Alan, I'm a little confused by the statement about copying code from Jim's driver to wingcc. I just assumed that wingcc was named as such because maybe PLplot was first ported to windows with support only for the gcc compiler? I.e. is there really anything specific to gcc about wingcc anymore. I recall using it with MSVC when I first got started with PLplot. If Jim's driver did everything that wingcc does, but without plfreetype, would there be a need for both?
Aaron. -----Original Message----- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 5:06 PM To: Jim Dishaw Cc: Aaron Hexamer; PLplot development list Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Using Window's raw API for shapes and text On 2015-05-13 14:03-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > I still have the revised windows driver that I can blow the dust off and offer as a possible replacement. Hi Jim: As I recall, you had a lot of interesting ideas for your Windows device driver so I hope you do integrate that into PLplot in the near future regardless of whether or not it uses the deprecated plfreetype approach to render text. Of course, it would be great if it uses a native Windows unicode API to render text using whatever Windows system fonts happen to be installed since that approach could be straightforwardly copied over to wingcc to get rid of the last use of plfreetype. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
