Re: Inline binary data: new feature ?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

Could this be related to Bug #3041233 "plot '-' with binary : gnuplot for windows"?

 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2981027&group_id=2055&atid=102055
  

On Friday 06 August 2010, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Yves,
> 
> That feature may already exist.  Look very closely at the demos for images
> 
> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_cvs/image2.html
> 
> for the example titled
> 
> "Binary data specified at the command line, intended for use through pipe"
> 
> (Look for the file in the CVS build if the binary characters don't come through properly).
> 
> Maybe that will work for you.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> yves2010 wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I am successfully using Gnuplot as a rendering engine in my application, to
> > display cross-sections of data images, using Windows piping and the special
> > '-' filename to plot inline data. However, I have to convert my data to
> > ASCII and Gnuplot has to convert from ASCII, which takes sufficient time to
> > slow down the reactivity of the cross-section plotting when the user moves
> > the mouse over the image.
> > 
> > Could it be possible to have en extension of the syntax, something like
> > 
> > plot '-' binary size=<#bytes>
> > 
> > so that #bytes bytes of binary data can be sent inline?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Yves
> 
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