Re: [Plplot-devel] Shapefile incorrectly displayed

2015-03-23 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Phil, I have just sent you privately a zip file with all the stuff. If you have not received it (spam filters and virus checkers are sometimes rather aggressive against such attachments), let me know. (Sending it directly to you seemed to me to put less strain on the mailing list.) Rega

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6?

2015-03-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-23 14:02-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > Last time I looked, achieving thread safety at a plot stream level should be achievable with modest effort (eliminating globals and static arrays). Achieving thread safety within a plot steam is more challenging and would require a fair number of mutex

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-23 17:56- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > i) Fontconfig is nearly impossible to build on native Windows. We have > had these discussions before. GIMP does appear to use it, but they > have no doubt had considerably more development person-hours than us > to work out how on earth to get it t

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6?

2015-03-23 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Mar 23, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi Hazen > This seems like a good plan to me. > > I agree with most things. To me the core role of plplot is to take > "plot instructions" and convert them to "drawing instructions" for > whichever device we are rendering to. > I have

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
I am slightly late to the show here, but I have fought with all three text implimentations for the different wxWidgets backends and have some thoughts. i) Fontconfig is nearly impossible to build on native Windows. We have had these discussions before. GIMP does appear to use it, but they have no

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: Thread safety?

2015-03-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
I should check further up my unread mail before I reply. At least we are in agreement :-) On 21 March 2015 at 09:41, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Since we are considering a number of changes, such as fixing error >> handling, that would

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6?

2015-03-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Hazen This seems like a good plan to me. I agree with most things. To me the core role of plplot is to take "plot instructions" and convert them to "drawing instructions" for whichever device we are rendering to. I have found rewriting the wxWidgets driver challenging as there are a lot of thin

Re: [Plplot-devel] fixed memory leak plplot-5.10.0 (Andrew Ross)

2015-03-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Yeah it's something I've been thinking about too. But not a fun task. To be honest I was starting to think that the least intrusive method would be to convert everything to C++, with a C frontend and use try-catch blocks with throw. Well I'm joking - sortof. But yes this has caused me major pain

Re: [Plplot-devel] Shapefile incorrectly displayed

2015-03-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Arjen Could you send me the shapefile and all associated ancillary files and I'll have a look it this? Phil On 20 March 2015 at 13:51, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I know we are in a code freeze, but I ran into a curious problem with the > new plmapfill routines to handle “shape

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-23 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 03/21/2015 05:51 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> On 03/20/2015 05:35 PM, Jim Dishaw wrote: In sum, the technical choice is between the alt approach which requires already implemented code in the core with simpler code in the