Re: [Plplot-general] hard disk filling up

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

Jay Christnach wrote:
> 

> 
> This got a bit complicated, because I'm no experienced C-programmer.
> Fortunately one knows somebody who knows more. We found that pls was declared
> static, so inaccessible and out of pure intuition we decided to try out plsc
> which is also a PLStream. And it worked! The temporary file is now still
> open, but it doesn't grow anymore.
> Here is what I did in my application code:
> ...
> #include "plstrm.h"
> extern PLStream *plsc;
> ....
> plinit();
> plsc->plbuf_write=0;
> ....
> 
> I'm not sure if this was the right (or the best) way to do it, but I think I
> can be happy with it. Thanks to the developers of those cool libraries which
> make programming a lot more fun!
> 

I ran into a similar problem - and used the same solution. This had to 
do with PLplot being a library inside a larger application. 

> The next challenge will be user interaction for which I will need an
> eventhandler for our window. Just don't know yet how to accomplish this
> stuff.
> 

You might want to look at the Tcl/Tk binding: with Tcl/Tk you can easily
create user-interfaces and PLplot can serve to produce your graphical
display.

If you choose another solution, you will probably run into the problems
I referred to - I still have to commit them to the PLplot development
team - as they arose in this larger program, because it handles the
user-interface (and all window events) and uses PLplot as a graphics
library.

Regards,

Arjen