Re: [Plplot-general] Possible axis drawing glitch

[Jerry <lan...@qw...>]

On Oct 25, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2006-10-25 16:29-0700 Jerry wrote:
>
>> I have encountered a repeatable problem when using my Ada binding  
>> to PLplot,
>> and I'm wondering if it is something that I've done wrong with the  
>> binding.
>
> I suggest the best general approach for debugging a new interface  
> is to
> create or modify a C example to recreate the exact C library  
> conditions that
> are giving you errors for your interface example.  Assuming that the
> C example works and your interface example does not, that very much  
> narrows
> the source of the problem to either the way you wrote your example  
> in the
> interface language or the programming of the interface itself.
>
> In any case, for every new interface we strongly encourage making a  
> complete
> set of standard examples following what is done in examples/c. The
> postscript result from each C example and the corresponding interface
> example should (ideally) be identical (although sometimes there are
> single-digit rounding differences).  The approach of trying to  
> mimic the
> simplest C examples and gradually moving to the more complicated  
> ones often
> helps to isolate interface issues.
>
> Also, you might want to try valgrind.  That is a great tool for  
> figuring out
> memory management issues (if those happen to be the source of some/ 
> all of
> your difficulties).
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin

Problem solved. Operator error. Thanks for your comment.

Jerry