Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-05 Thread phil rosenberg
Thanks Alan ;-) I often find email so infuriating. This thread, in person, would have been a 2 minute conversation. I just want to make sure I get a good feel for what the devs and community want before I spend too much to much time coding, especially if, like this, it's a moderate sized change.

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
By the way, I looked for a shapefile viewer on Debian and found thuban. I don't know whether that is the best shapefile viewer for Linux, but it is based on libgda/ogr. When I tried thuban on overall shapefile maps for British Columbian (obtained by following links at http://downloads.cloudmade.co

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-05 05:56-0700 phil rosenberg wrote: > So in terms of implimentation, what would be the way ahead? If the intention would be to eventually replace the current maps with shapefile versions then are we happy that the core API will have a dependancy on shapelib (presumably the only alternat

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxwidgets linebreaks

2012-10-05 Thread phil rosenberg
I'm 2.8.10, so a bit older than you, but even so I would have hoped that bugs wouldn't have been introduced between versions.   I will try to see if I can build on a linux system to see the effect.   Phil From: Andrew Ross To: phil rosenberg Cc: "plplot-deve

Re: [Plplot-devel] map resolution

2012-10-05 Thread phil rosenberg
Hi Alan In that case I misread the documentation I thought each file had a bounding box.   All good for shapefiles then.   So in terms of implimentation, what would be the way ahead? If the intention would be to eventually replace the current maps with shapefile versions then are we happy that th

Re: [Plplot-devel] Colorbar support

2012-10-05 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: > > Hez, > > Thanks for your updates to the plcolorbar / pllegend support. Do you > have any other plans for further changes? I was wondering whether we > are approaching the point where we feel happy with the API for these > functions. If so I wo

Re: [Plplot-devel] wxwidgets linebreaks

2012-10-05 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:33:04PM -0700, phil rosenberg wrote: > Hi Andrew > Attached is my output for example 1 with backend=2. Everything looks fine to > me. > ? > I downloaded a fresh version of the source and applied the patch so it's a > clean install as it were. > ? > I'm using wxWidgets 2