Dave A year or two ago we likewise looked to plplot to modernise our extensive software suite (qsas) partly to remove the last bits of fortran-dependent code as it poses continued cross-platform problems. We supply qsas to a wide range of international users.
As you will have realised plplot is a direct pgplot descendent and in particular has the same plottting paradigms in terms of viewports etc. Since pgplot's main attraction is it's relatively smal api (and a real programmer's interface) I suspect it would be relatively easy to write the translation library you seek. Perhaps the way plot streams are handled would need some thought but many functions have nearly identical syntax. However I suspect once you start down this road you'll start to see things that plplot does better and things that pgplot can't do that you'll want to take advantage of. Additionally you'll find several people on this list who are very responsive to queries. We quickly moved to rewrite our code in plplot and indeed have written a whole new family of qt drivers that have proved to be an extremely effective solution to windows/mac/Linux/solaris support we provide. For me that re-write was easy, but that's because I had project moneynto pay a small and very talented pair of staff members to do it! It may well be that there are lots of people who would like a translation library of the kind you describe. The first step would obviously be to take, for example, the cpgplot header file and map pgplot->plplot functions. That may convince you one way or the other about the relative pain of writing such a library vs editing your source to call the plplot routines natively. You could probably migrate your suite in segments linking against both pg and pl for separate unrelated plots. In the process you'll find things pgplot can't do that you will be tempted to use. Good luck Steve ----------- Steve Schwartz Space and Atmospheric Physics Imperial College London Tel 020 7594 7660 On 2 Jan 2010, at 20:43, "David MacMahon" <dav...@astro.berkeley.edu> wrote: > I use a suite of (mostly FORTRAN, but some C) software that uses > PGPLOT extensively. I have recently discovered PLplot and would like > to "modernize" the suite of software to make use of PLplot instead of > PGPLOT. Instead of making wholesale changes the plethora of source > files, I was hoping to find a PGPLOT emulation library that would > appear to clients as libpgplot (or libcpgplot) yet really be a > translation layer that ultimately calls into PLplot libraries. > > Has anyone ever created such a thing? Are there any show-stopper > issues that would make that impossible or impractical? > > Thanks, > Dave > > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast > and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-general mailing list > Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
