Re: unlimited windows patch

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

On Friday 31 October 2003 02:50, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > So, in summary, the structure of 16 plots has been replaced by a
> > linked list.
>
> I propose to add this patch into current cvs. (That limit of 16 windows
> is considered as a bug by some people, mainly when using it with
> Octave's figure(n) function.)

So far it works here also, but I have not tested it very thoroughly.


> BTW, I've noticed that there is a bug visible on some enhanced terminal=
s
> (PM and gd enhanced patch by Ethan): all text is flushed left instead o=
f right.

What is PM?

Text justification in gd+enhanced would be difficult, although I think it
is possible with some work.   It is much harder than in PostScript becaus=
e
libgd does not provide equivalent operators such as gsave/grestore.
A lot more would have to be done in software.   But I did block out the
code in principle.   A bigger problem is that libgd is still not handling
symbol fonts correctly.  I have mailed patches toTom Boutell, but they ha=
ve
not yet made it into a released version.


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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
Biomolecular Structure Center Box 357742
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195