On 2015-05-21 22:14-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > Bad news. I searched for my old Windows driver and I have lost it to the ether. I found some remnants, but not enough to compile. I can a recreate it without too much difficultly. The driver version that I had created was a merge between the X11 and the Windows GDI drivers because I wanted to have a common UI between the two platforms (e.g. menubar, crosshairs for picking points, printing).
> Is it worthwhile for me to recreate this driver? It should not interfere with the plbuf/plmetafile cleanup; in fact, digging into a driver might help in clarifying some concepts. Hi Jim: That is mostly up to you although I do take your point it could be a useful exercise for you. Also, I don't use the xwin menubar or printer feature at all so cannot properly evaluate their capabilities, but from comparisons I have done with the -locate feature of examples/c/x01c.c, running the 3rd (interactive) page of example 20, and running special octave interactive examples, the xwin crosshairs capability is the best of all our devices, and it would well be worth copying what it does to xcairo, qtwidget, wxwidgets, wingcc, and the new windows device. Just in case you decide it would be worthwhile to recreate that driver, I searched through the plplot-devel archive I have collected over the years and found some references to your Windows driver but no specific attachments of your source code except possibly part of your driver that was introduced by you back in 2008 in the following discussion with Werner: " I think it is a good idea. In fact, I have created an abstract driver for an interactive device. I wanted to create a consistent user interface for both X11 and MS Windows. In order to achieve that, I split the driver into two parts: The real device driver and the abstract driver. The real device driver defines the dispatch setup function (and the dummy function if it is disabled). The dispatch table is configured to point to functions in the abstract driver. The abstract driver calls the underlying API calls through a function pointer. I have attached my abstract driver as a strawman. It is a work in progress, so it is a bit crude still. " I could send that attachment along to you if you lost the original that you sent out. You also might want to search the plplot-devel archives yourself for any descriptions you gave of your device driver, if you have not done that already. 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
