Re: [Maxima-discuss] plotdf error, was: XMaxima in Maxima 5.40 seems broken in Windows and wxMaxima has issues

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2017-07-30, Jaime Villate <vi...@fe...> wrote:

> That guy seems to know Tcl, but in any case those kind of patches to a 
> plotting program should never be committed without first making sure 
> that at least the plots in the Manual still work.

Yes, although I'm glad that outsiders want to help, we have to verify
the changes. In this case it would be pretty easy by just trying the
examples so there seems no reason to skip over that.

> Also, the patch sent by themusicgod1 to allow the user to change the 
> number of arrows will only help those users who are Tcl hackers, because 
> the regular Maxima users will not have any use for the new option 
> number_of_arrows, unless it is also implemented in plotdf.lisp.

Yeah, number_of_arrows sounds interesting, but I couldn't see how it is
supposed to be used. I see that it shows up on the list that pops up
when you click the wrench icon, but changing number_of_arrows didn't
seem to cause the picture to be redrawn. Maybe I'm missing something
there.

best

Robert Dodier