Hi, I more or less completed the (huge) update to the wxWidgets driver. Basically there is now a basic abstract wxWidgets driver class, which can't do nothing on its own, but backends can be inherited from this base class (various drivers in one driver if you want). This allowed to me to add a new backend based on wxGraphicsContext easily which adds transparency and antialiased output to the wxWidgets driver. I added also code which allows the driver to easily process the text themselves. A short feature overview:
backend 0, default, based on wxDC: Own text processing (no shear), non- antialiased, no transparency, freetype optional, fast backend 1, based on AGG library: No text processing (working on it), antialiased, transparency, freetype optional, not so fast backend 2, based on wxGraphicsContext: Own text processing (incl. shear), antialiased, transparency, no freetype, not so fast Backend 0 is always there for all platforms if wxWidgets is available. Backend 1 needs the AGG library. Backend 2 is available if wxGraphicsContext is available, which is the case for wxWidgets version 2.8 and above. In Linux this needs in addition cairo and the configure option --enable-graphics_ctx, in Windows GDI+ and therefore only for Visual C++ (MinGW is possible, but not sure about the license), in Mac OS X the wxWidgets library delivered with 10.5 has wxGraphicsContext included. I tested the driver (looking at all examples) for the following cases: Linux wxGTK 2.6.4 unicode, non-unicode wxGTK 2.8.9 unicode, non-unicode Windows wxMSW 2.8.9 unicode, non-unicode on MinGW (and therefor not backend 2) Mac OS X wxMac 2.8.9 non-unicode wxMac 2.8.4 unicode All worked ok for me. So I decided to turn the wxWidgets driver on by default again. This also concludes all my changes I wanted to make before the next release. If someone could test the driver for his/her platform this would be great, especially if someone has Mac OS X 10.4 which provides wxWidgets 2.5.3 by default - I hope that there it also works well (without backend 2). Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
