Re: cbfix

[Dr. J. Z. <joh...@ze...>]

Hi,

attached is the trivial patch.

-- 
Dr. Johannes Zellner <joh...@ze...>

2008/3/4, Petr Mikulik <mi...@ph...>:
> > the plot -- which is easily be done by "set autoscale cbfix". I heared
>  > this question about 10 or 15 times the last years. Having autoscaling
>  >
>
> > >> Having autoscaling switched on for all axes by default (so the
>  > >> default for all axes is the same) might be esthetically and
>  > >> conceptionally "correct" but it is counterintuitive.
>
>
> It's a good idea and I also propose to switch "set autoscale cbfix" by
>  default. Colours are used for visualization, so it's really wrong to have
>  them rounded down&up. Looking to other software, e.g. Matlab, the range is
>  "fixed". Actually I really don't like to use always the "fix" setting...
>
>  Why it has not been done until know? Nobody came with this idea!
>
>  It won't hurt older scripts, I guess that everybody is using "set autoscale
>  fix" for images and similar, or sets cbrange explicitly.
>
>  Johannes, can you prepare a patch for both 4.2 and cvs and test it?
>
>
>  > I am for breaking backward compatibility if it helps usability, since it
>  > can be easily fixed by putting the old setting into ~/.gnuplotrc.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
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> PM
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