Re: Engines are started; first car is out the gate

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

On Thursday 08 July 2004 12:11 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> pstex), png, pdf, aqua.  The one main one not covered is probably
> Windows in some form.  However, the software should at least default to
> using filled polygons for that case if pm3d is available.

I plan to move the filled_polygon() code out of the PM3D #ifdefs, and
make it dependent on USE_ULIG_FILLEDBOXES instead.  I'll make this
change one driver at a time.  In most cases the existing term->fillbox()
will then become a special-case wrapper that simply passes along a
request for a 4-vertex polygon.  Once the drivers are ready, I'll change
the core routines to allow filledcurves and other options based on 
term->filled_polygon even in the absence of PM3D.
But as you all know, I don't do Windows - so I leave that to someone else. 

> 5)  In the reading of raw data, I've intermixed code in the
> "df_readline()" routine so that the changes I've made have a small
> probability of altering the way any file entry current behaved.
>  However, I look at "df_readline()" as being the workhorse of the file
> reading routines.  As such, it could maybe be cleaned up later on when
> all is said and done.  In fact, I'm wondering if just a couple extra
> conditional statements within this routine could achieve reading
> "gnuplot binary" files so that a special routine for gnuplot binary is
> not needed.

It would be nice to further clean up the code in df_readline().
But I think it is OK to start with a working version and use it for
a baseline against which to compare the output of cleaned up
versions.

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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