Re: [Plplot-general] Some inconsistencies in between plframe and the tcl API

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Dean Clamons writes:
 > I've found that the routines plscmap0, plscmap1 and plscol0 all have API's 
 > defined in tclgen.c. That's fine and they seem to work, but in plframe there 
 > are also separate implementations in Cmd which seem to require different 
 > calling sequences. I'm assuming that these are left over from some previous 
 > incarnation. Incidentally, I've looked at the 5.0.2 source files to see if the 
 > problem still exists there. It does.

The color handling routines in plframe use X11 conventions rather than plplot
ones, which is more appropriate for a widget.  I.e. it uses XParseColor to
convert a string into its 3 rgb components.  This lets you use symbolic names
or hex notation for color values.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...