Re: [Plplot-devel] plmtex3

2007-03-14 Thread hbabcockos1
On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-03-13 20:43-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [...] Suggestions? The following example demonstrates the >> function: [...] > > I added command-line parsing to the example, straightened out an > #include > issue, moved the strings f

[Plplot-devel] plptex3

2007-03-13 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, I've just (also) added a function called plptex3 to the PLplot API, which is the 3D equivalent of plptex. It take 3 sets of coordinate, (1) x,y,z position of the text, (2) dx, dy, dz of the text baseline and (3) dx, dy, dz of the line which the text should be "vertically" parallel

[Plplot-devel] plmtex3

2007-03-13 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, I've just added a function called plmtex3 to the PLplot API. Essentially it is the 3D equivalent of plmtex, though the side argument is a bit different. You specify an axis with one of "x", "y", "z", then whether you want the label on the primary/secondary axis with "p" or "s", and

Re: [Plplot-devel] university students with plsmem problem

2007-03-09 Thread hbabcockos1
On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Raul Perez-alejo Neyra wrote: > > thanks to allan for forwarding my message to this mailing list, > unfortunately we still have problems with the plplot mem driver. We > want plplot to compose a graphic in memory and then pass it to > another vector graphic libra

Re: [Plplot-devel] university students with plsmem problem (fwd)

2007-03-08 Thread hbabcockos1
On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Does anybody have a good simple example of using plsmem? See request that was sent to me below. I encourage you to reply directly to Raul, but if you do so, please CC me or this mailing list since I would like to know the answer to the qu

Re: [Plplot-devel] Python API

2007-02-19 Thread hbabcockos1
On Feb 18, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-02-18 22:36-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> In the process of working my way through updating the documentation >> I've noticed that there are a reasonable number of functions that I >> cannot find in the Python API.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Docbook/Documentation Update

2007-02-19 Thread hbabcockos1
On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-02-11 18:14-0700 Jerry wrote: > >> Is there any interest in including the Ada binding in the new >> documentation, assuming that I get busy and finish converting the >> examples as I promised? > > Jerry, the next step (assuming you want

[Plplot-devel] Python API

2007-02-18 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, In the process of working my way through updating the documentation I've noticed that there are a reasonable number of functions that I cannot find in the Python API. Is this because they are really missing? Or am I not looking in the right place? My approach has been to grep for t

[Plplot-devel] 3D text?

2007-02-11 Thread hbabcockos1
Does PLplot have a function for writing text in "3D"? I see that you can specify orientation with plptex, but there is no way to specify a shear angle. thanks, -Hazen - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

Re: [Plplot-devel] cvs to svn conversion

2007-02-09 Thread hbabcockos1
On Feb 7, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Now we have yet to make the decision about the timing of the next > development release, 5.7.3, but I assume it will be something like 1-2 > months from now. IMPORTANT. Is that sort of time scale for when the > conversion occurs OK with everybod

Re: [Plplot-devel] Docbook/Documentation Update

2007-02-09 Thread hbabcockos1
On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:47 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2007-02-07 21:34-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> Some questions / issues with our current docbook manual: >> >> (1a) Chapter 23 (i.e. how to install). Should we keep this and update >> it? Refer users to the INSTALL file instead? To the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Docbook/Documentation Update

2007-02-09 Thread hbabcockos1
On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I suggest we document both the full API and the redacted API for > each of the > PLplot functions where there is a difference. This amounts to > simply an > extra listing of the function call, for example, > > full API: plline(n, x, y) > red

[Plplot-devel] Docbook/Documentation Update

2007-02-07 Thread hbabcockos1
Some questions / issues with our current docbook manual: (1a) Chapter 23 (i.e. how to install). Should we keep this and update it? Refer users to the INSTALL file instead? To the wiki? (1b) Chapter 4, how to deploy. See questions for 1a. (2) We seem to be missing a chapter on Java. Any Java ex

[Plplot-devel] CMake error when building only the documentation

2007-02-04 Thread hbabcockos1
This is admittedly a bit of an edge case, but when I tried to only build the PLplot documentation by turning off all the drivers and all the supported languages I got: CMake Error: Error in cmake code at ):88: STRING sub-command REGEX, mode MATCH needs at least 6 arguments total to command.

Re: [Plplot-devel] [Plplot-cvs] plplot/drivers gd.c,1.46,1.47

2007-02-01 Thread hbabcockos1
Thanks Andrew, I can now compile gd again on my system. -Hazen On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Andrew Roach wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot/drivers > In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv20104/drivers > > Modified Files: > gd.c > Log Message: > Should fix the prob

[Plplot-devel] g++ 4.0.1 problem?

2007-01-30 Thread hbabcockos1
Does anyone know whether this problem building the PLplot c++ bindings is actually a problem with g++ 4.0.1 being more picky than 4.0.0? Or has something else gone wrong? Thanks, -Hazen > Initial Comment: > I've run into a build error under Mac OS X 10.4.8 (both Intel and > PPC): > > Makin

[Plplot-devel] problem building with the gd driver on OS-X

2007-01-29 Thread hbabcockos1
When I try to build cvs plplot (or 5.7.2) I get: [ 42%] Building C object drivers/CMakeFiles/gd.dir/gd.o /Users/hbabcock/Documents/OpenSource/PLplot/plplot-5.7.2/drivers/ gd.c: In function 'plD_init_png_Dev': /Users/hbabcock/Documents/OpenSource/PLplot/plplot-5.7.2/drivers/gd.c: 427: error: 'sm

Re: [Plplot-devel] [AQT-user] Font problems with PLplot and AquaTerm

2007-01-26 Thread hbabcockos1
On Jan 26, 2007, at 5:51 PM, David Andrews wrote: > Hi Joe, Per - > > I've just finished installing plplot, in the same way as I suspect Joe > did, using 'cmake', which went fine and reported no errors. > > However, on compiling a few of the demos myself, as well as a very > simple program consis

Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot 5.7.2 is now available

2007-01-22 Thread hbabcockos1
On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Thanks for your continuing release efforts. No problem. A few questions came up in the process of generating this release: (1) In our Cookbook at the make_tarball.sh stage we mention a /a/ install/directory created for testing purposes. Thi

[Plplot-devel] PLplot 5.7.2 is now available

2007-01-21 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, PLplot 5.7.2 is now available at SourceForge. This is the second official (development) version of PLplot that uses the new cmake build system. Please note that version 2.4.5 or greater of cmake is now required. Important improvements include better support for Windows programming

[Plplot-devel] 5.7.2 Release

2007-01-15 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, A friendly reminder that I plan to release version 5.7.2 this weekend. I've made a first pass at the release notes. If you see any important changes that I missed, please let me know. Werner, could you please provide a few sentences about your new pdf driver? best, -Hazen

Re: [Plplot-devel] AQTAdapter.h

2007-01-06 Thread hbabcockos1
On Jan 6, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Hiroyasu Yasuda wrote: > Hi, Werner: > > Thank you for helping. > > I ran make VERBOSE=1 and obtained output as attached file. Of course > I changed ine 33 of plplot/drivers/aqt.c. > > My OSX has two AQTAdapter.h in /sw/include and /sw/include/aquaterm. > > ccmake is r

Re: [Plplot-devel] Timing of the next PLplot release

2007-01-06 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 28, 2006, at 9:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This e-mail is just to let everyone know that the plan is to release > PLplot 5.7.2 (?) in mid January. If you have the time, please > download and test 5.7.1, then let us know what doesn't work, what you > don't like, etc... To be more spe

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake-2.4.5 is now the minimum version and summary of outstanding issues for PLplot/CMake.

2006-12-07 Thread hbabcockos1
On Dec 7, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2006-12-06 22:08-0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's the key issue. Rafael was the guy maintaining it as part of > PDL, and > he is not doing that any more. So if we don't find a replacement > developer > willing to work on the Perl

Re: [Plplot-devel] cmake-2.4.5 is now the minimum version and summary of outstanding issues for PLplot/CMake.

2006-12-06 Thread hbabcockos1
On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Since Rafael is no longer working on anything PLplot-related, I > think the > best solution here is to implement the perl/pdl binding within the > PLplot > project. That actually should be pretty straightforward since you > could use > SW

[Plplot-devel] Changes to the PLplot web page?

2006-11-28 Thread hbabcockos1
Is it okay to remove the CVS snapshot tarballs section from the PLplot web page? This is infrequently updated and it tends to just be whatever the current release is, so I don't think that it is that useful. We could always reinstate it if Sourceforge loses anonymous CVS for an extended pe

[Plplot-devel] Timing of the next PLplot release

2006-11-28 Thread hbabcockos1
This e-mail is just to let everyone know that the plan is to release PLplot 5.7.2 (?) in mid January. If you have the time, please download and test 5.7.1, then let us know what doesn't work, what you don't like, etc... best, -Hazen

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to use the installed PLplot libraries

2006-11-27 Thread hbabcockos1
> > I would like to ask you a few questions: > Does that mean re-installing PLplot using CMake? > If I will re-install using CMake, are all files overwrited > safely ? Yes, everything of importance will safely be overwritten. You will be left with a folder of examples in /usr/local/share call

[Plplot-devel] PLplot Online

2006-11-26 Thread hbabcockos1
If you are interested, you can now experiment with PLplot online (note, simple 2D plots only). http://www.hbabcock.org/plplot/readme.html This has taken a while, but hopefully all my troubles with my ISP are now behind me... Anyway, please let me know if you run across any bugs. -Hazen --

[Plplot-devel] PLplot 5.7.1 is now available

2006-11-26 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, PLplot 5.7.1 is now available at Sourceforge. This is the first official (development) version of PLplot using the new cmake build system. While it can still be built the "old" way (i.e. using configure) we recommend getting the latest version of cmake (2.4.4) and using that instea

Re: [Plplot-devel] new wxwidgets driver

2006-11-25 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > > I updated the wxwidgets driver (hopefully it makes the 5.7.0 > release) a great > deal. Most important I improved the antialized part of the driver. > It is now > about 4 times faster and not much slower than the non antialized > c

Re: [Plplot-devel] CMake-2.4.4 has been released today

2006-11-25 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2006-11-21 14:35-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> If it works for me, and I don't hear about problems from anybody >> else today, >> I plan to make it the minimum version we accept. > > I found a straightforward workaround for the python and

Re: [Plplot-devel] SVG driver

2006-11-13 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 12, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> If you choose to play with it, you should be aware of the following >> issues: >> (1) If the plot is at all >> complicated then you might find rendering to be painfully slow. [...] > > I confirm that on my 2.4GHz Linux box. It takes about 1 sec

Re: [Plplot-devel] OS-X and Tcl/Tk

2006-11-13 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > anything more we can do in the linking department. One possibility > is to > try a different version of Tcl/Tk (the fink version if you got the > above > results with the Apple native version or vice versa). But if you > get the > same o

Re: [Plplot-devel] Our next development release (or it's over to you Hazen... :-))

2006-11-13 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hazen, I think the timing of the next release (5.7.0) is now in > your hands. > Obviously, you will need some extra time beyond what you normally > spend on a > release to figure out and document the changed CBS-only procedure for > release

[Plplot-devel] SVG driver

2006-11-12 Thread hbabcockos1
Hello, I've added a SVG driver to PLplot (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/). SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a XML graphical language that is supported natively or as a plug in most modern browsers. In theory it is anti-aliased and uses truetype fonts, but the reality will depend on the

Re: [Plplot-devel] OS-X and Tcl/Tk

2006-11-07 Thread hbabcockos1
>> Everything continues to work well for OS-X. >> >> I need some pointers to get the Tk driver to work on OS-X however. At >> present there are at least two problems: >> >> (1) plFindName and by extension, plFindCommand always fail on OS-X >> because it is not a OS of type __unix (src/plctrl.c), ev

Re: [Plplot-devel] OS-X and Tcl/Tk

2006-11-06 Thread hbabcockos1
On Nov 6, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2006-11-05 21:20-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> Tomorrow, I will >> use the same "Apple" method to transform the data for the >> remaining *.pc >> files that we configure. It shouldn't make much difference to the >> result of >> the curr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Our CBS and the next development release

2006-10-07 Thread hbabcockos1
On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > improvements there. The current weak spot is Mac OS X, but I am > sure Hazen > (with some help from Per and Koen) should be able to straighten > that out to > achieve a full-featured PLplot on that platform. I presume a month > or so OS-