Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:26:39AM -0600, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > > be worthwhile if we end up with just the idea

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:40:40PM +0100, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > > > > If a new/improved set of Plplot Tcl/Tk widgets were to come along, > > which > > worked only with Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen > > with the > > older stuff that works with Tcl/Tk 8.4-? >

[Plplot-devel] Plans for developing PLplot support of gradients

2009-11-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Currently, the second page of example 30 shows how we implement linear gradients in PLplot using a combination of plscmap1la and plshades. That method should give good results for perfectly opaque colours, but does a poor job with transparency gradients (see http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples-

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, > > If a new/improved set of Plplot Tcl/Tk widgets were to come along, > which > worked only with Tcl/Tk 8.5+, what would people expect to happen > with the > older stuff that works with Tcl/Tk 8.4-? > > If a new/improved set of PLplot Python widgets were to come along, > which

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 6.0

2009-11-23 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > So I think "the road to 6.0" is going to be a long process that will need > lots of planning, implementation, and testing work, but that effort should > be worthwhile if we end up with just the ideal API for 6.0 with the > non-ideal component of our API completely remove