Re: [Plplot-devel] Example 19 differences for Tcl [Solved!]

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan,



I will look into this - the issue was indeed swamped by other stuff. But I am glad you found a solution.

Regards,

Arjen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 10:50 AM
> To: Arjen Markus
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: RE: Example 19 differences for Tcl [Solved!]
>
> On 2016-01-11 07:38-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> > Yes, I will have a look at [these example 19 differences] once the
> > Fortran work is done. Right
> now on my machine such differences are hidden by the fact that Cygwin installation
> is currently missing the shapelib library.
>
> Hi Arjen:
>
> To resurrect this 20-day old topic, I did not see a commit from you regarding the
> above plan for further action so I assume it got lost deep on your ToDo list.  Since I
> was sorting out some -DPL_DOUBLE=OFF issues with tclAPI.c in any case, I
> decided to fix some obvious logic issues (i.e., if GetEntries didn't find anything
> tacked on to the end of the call, the logic dropped through rather than calling
> c_plmap*) myself. I also did a substantial code cleanup when figuring out the Tcl
> argument lists for plmap* calls.  As a result we now (commit
> 855ac03) have perfect Tcl PostScript differences for all examples (including 19) for
> the -DPL_DOUBLE=ON case!
>
> However, you are more expert than I am with regard to the Tcl binding so please
> carefully review the current argument list logic for preparing the calls to c_plmap*
> functions to see if any further logic issues exist and to see whether the code can be
> cleaned up any further.  In particular, the current logic cleanup exposed what
> appears to be some inconsistencies in where tcl_interp is set. I frankly don't
> understand the tcl_interp logic so will you please take an especially close look at
> that and fix those inconsistencies? (Or do a further code cleanup to remove the
> tcl_interp logic altogether if it doesn't matter?)
>
> Thanks in advance with your help finalizing this round of changes for tclAPI.c.
>
> Alan
>
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