[Plplot-general] tk binding thru EXCEED

[Steven M. <sjm...@ya...>]

I stumbled across this plplot package yesterday, looking for something
that would allow me to do contour plots thru tk-wins more quickly.  I
hooked up plplot and I thought it was great.  Everything went smoothly,
drew quickly, and looked really nice.

Then, I tried popping over to my windows box and run my app thru EXCEED
(a unix emulator on windows).  The screen updates for plplot became
quite constipated.

Digging around a little, I see that the plframe actually uses the
'xwin' device.  These xwin commands are probably not getting thru
EXCEED very efficiently.  Oddly, my previous tk windows manipulations
did not have this constipated delivery.  It was slow because of the
large amounts of data, but the screen updates were fine.  I tried
briefly to launch a tk device and draw to that, and it seemed faster,
but it was inconclusive b/c the thing kept core-dumping after the
initial draw.  I haven't put much effort along that line of effort yet.

I took a quick peek at the ntk driver and it looked like it might be
calling more standard tk functions rather than using the xwin driver.  

I know I haven't posed any questions here.  I'm hoping somebody will be
able to gather my ramblings and use their massive brainpower to form a
mosaic out of them.  Maybe someone can paint me a purty picture of how
I should proceed.  My users will mostly be using EXCEED, but I
definitely want the functionality of tk to be able to customize my
menus, widgets, etc.

Thanks,
Steve



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