Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Bill, On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:19 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > a performance argument is a stretch I agree, that's why I prefaced my comments with... >> For the smallish amounts of >> legend text it probably doesn't matter that much either way Since plotting is inherently much more number-heavy

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 21:59-0700 David MacMahon wrote: > Does the library strdup the passed in strings, render them before returning, > or just copy the pointers for later rendering? Hi Dave: It renders the text with plptex( text_x_world + text_justification * text_width0, ty, 0.1, 0.0, text_

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
text will not make a bit of difference by comparison. Bill From: David MacMahon [dav...@astro.berkeley.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:59 AM To: Alan W. Irwin Cc: Schwab,Wilhelm K; Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Le

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:59:48PM -0700, David MacMahon wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 21:42 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > > > >> I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. > >> Is there a reason for the double pointer? It

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread David MacMahon
On Oct 5, 2010, at 21:42 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > >> I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. >> Is there a reason for the double pointer? It seems that >> >> this part\0that part\0...\0and the last part\0\0 >> >> wou

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. Is there a > reason for the double pointer? It seems that > > this part\0that part\0...\0and the last part\0\0 > > would do the job just as easily?? I guess arranging a string w

[Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
I started out trying to build the new release and did not get far with the instructions on the wiki. Then I found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/unable-to-install-and-build-plplot-5-9-a-789425/ Building plplot-5.9.5 : 1) cd plplot-5.9.5/ , 2) mkdir build 3) cd buil