Re: wxwidgets terminal follows its pace

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

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 06:23 am, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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> I had to chose in which order things are drawn. Until now, I've decided=20
> to group things by categories : polygons, lines, text, fillboxes. And I=20
> draw polygons before lines, so lines appear over the pm3d plot, as if it=
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> were transparent. However, I can change its behaviour to make things=20
> drawn exactly in the order that gnuplot give.

I think it is important that objects are drawn in the order given by
gnuplot.  Otherwise the "front" and "back" qualifiers lose their meaning,
and certain plot styles may be oddly rendered (e.g. candlesticks+fill;=20
histograms+errorbars). The plot styles could, if necessary, be rewritten
to omit the occluded elements rather than over-writing them with a solid
fill, but to me it seems there is value in having the core code be
able to control the order of drawing.


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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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