To Phil: You said:
> 2) The fill bug where the whole plot gets accidentally filled - I can't remember if that still exits or if a workaround fix was added. Thanks for reminding me of that rather complex fill issue. No fix has been done yet so that issue should still be with us. I had already started to sort out some of the preliminaries on a private topic branch, but I shut that down due to lack of time leading up to 5.12.0, but I plan to restart that effort early in this current (major) release cycle as promised back when I had to shut it down. An additional constraint is we need lots of time to test any solution to this issue to make sure we haven't turned a fairly acceptable situation (only your two reports of fill issues for rather special conditions over the many years since the fill code was last changed) worse. So ideally the definitive fill fix should be implemented soon, but we should test it for a long time. So my initial plan is to leave this fill fix out of any quick bug fix release (5.12.1) for wxwidgets fixes and other quick and simple fixes, and only release this fill fix as part of the next major release (5.13.0). My first big priority (beyond some minor stuff) is the remaining Linux inefficiency issues for wxwidgets, but very high on my priority list after that comes restarting my fill branch and implementing a definitive solution to the fill issue that is extremely well tested and which we can all therefore trust. By the way, one test I am considering is for a rather complex and random fill pattern center a small clip box in a random part of the space filled by that pattern. Then make an animated GIF movie of the fill patterns that result as that clip box is smoothly expanded. The fills should mostly be continuous as that clip box is expanded so I am pretty sure such a movie would give the eye a chance to quickly evaluate whether our fill algorithm is working properly for a given random pattern superimposed on a clipping square of arbitrary size relative to the pattern. Then move on to the next random fill pattern and run the test again, for say 100 different random fill patterns. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
