[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[9823] trunk/examples/c/README.cairo

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Revision: 9823
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=9823&view=rev
Author:   airwin
Date:     2009-04-20 19:23:35 +0000 (Mon, 20 Apr 2009)

Log Message:
-----------
Update documentation of how to use the PLplot and the Cairo driver to draw
into an externally supplied XDrawable or Cairo context.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/examples/c/README.cairo

Modified: trunk/examples/c/README.cairo
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--- trunk/examples/c/README.cairo	2009-04-20 18:26:38 UTC (rev 9822)
+++ trunk/examples/c/README.cairo	2009-04-20 19:23:35 UTC (rev 9823)
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
+Some examples demonstrating how to use the PLplot xcairo and extcairo to
+draw into an externally supplied XDrawable or Cairo context.
 
-Some examples demonstrating how to use the PLplot and the Cairo driver to draw
-into an externally supplied XDrawable or Cairo context.
-
 EXTERNAL X DRAWABLE EXAMPLES
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The external X drawable example is extXdrawable_demo.c.  They are not part
-of the general PLplot testbed of examples, but are instead designed to
+The external X drawable example is extXdrawable_demo.c.  It is designed to
 demonstrate the use of the ability of plplot's xcairo driver to use an X
 drawable supplied by an application.  The example itself uses GTK but the
 concept applies to any graphical framework, or even programs using libX11
 directly.
 
+To build this demo, install PLplot with the "make install" command and then
+run 'make extXdrawable_demo' in the installed .../examples/c directory.
 
 EXTERNAL CAIRO CONTEXT EXAMPLES
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 The C program ext-cairo-test.c demonstrates how to pass in an external
-Cairo Context that PLplot can use for plotting. On unix like systems you
-should be able to compile this as follows:
+Cairo Context that PLplot can use for plotting.
 
-gcc ext-cairo-test.c -o ext-cairo-test `pkg-config --cflags --libs plplotd cairo`
+To build this demo, install PLplot with the "make install" command and then
+run 'make ext-cairo-test' in the installed .../examples/c directory.
 


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