Re: proposal for cvs'ing 'with image'

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Harald Harders wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:
>
>>My issue with map3d_xy has nothing to do with rounding.
>>The problem is that it returns coordinate values as (unsigned int)
>>without checking for negative numbers.
>>See numerous bug reports about vector and arrow problems
>>whenever one end of a vector is outside of the plot area.
>>When I looked at this before I decided that fixing this properly
>>might require doing away with the routine altogether, and
>>having the callers check for out-of-bound endpoints before
>>converting input coordinates to (unsigned int) screen coordinates.
>>    
>>
>
>The problem with negative coordinate values is partly fixed with my
>relative coordinate patch (#991819). May be applying it could do half the
>way to fix that problem.
>  
>

I think this could be a top priority issue.  Once in a while I'll zoom 
and there will be lines going off into seemingly random directions. 
 That kind of thing is unseemly.  I could make the binary data file 
changes Ethan suggested and have a patch ready by monday.  This could 
directly follow.

Dan