Re: [Plplot-general] tk binding thru EXCEED

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

You might wish to look in the 'tea' branch of plplot, which contains a
'tkwin' driver which uses much more standard Tk interfaces (i.e. the bits
of Tk which are common across Mac,Win,Unix).

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Steven Morris wrote:

> 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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