Hi Alan On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:51:04PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > As far as I can tell from > > git log --follow examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c > > Jonathan Woithe implemented that example a decade ago ...
I did. The purpose of the example was to show how the external X drawable device could be used to integrate into toolkits for which there was no native PLplot device. > This example is really dated because it contains calls to the GTK+ API > that were already deprecated for GTK+ version 2 and non-existent for > GTK+ version 3. And it is not a good idea to mix this GTK+ version 2 > example with a PLplot core library that can depend directly (in the > non-dynamic drivers case) on GTK+ version 3 which has long been the > standard version of GTK+. So I have effectively disabled the build of > examples/c/extXdrawable_demo.c in my recent commit 9893349d1. These are all valid points, and disabling the build of the code seems like a sensible step at this point. Although it hasn't been mentioned, I would be reluctant to see the example removed completely though, since it still serves to show one possible way that the External X Drawable device can be used. With that said, it would be good to update it for gtk3. I would be willing to take a look at this myself, but it might be a few months before I have the time to do so due to an elevated workload. I am by no means an expert on gtk but I might be able to get something functional happening. It's also worth noting that there was nothing special about choosing gtk for this demo. At the time I was working on an internal company tool which needed to plot data in a GUI context. It was a simple program and it ended up using gtk (Qt wasn't an option at that point for various unrelated reasons). Since the demo came out of that work, the demo ended up using gtk. Feel free to ping me in about 3 months if you haven't heard from me by then. Regards jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
