Re: [Plplot-devel] Your development plans for this release cycle

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Hi Phil:

On 2017-01-30 10:17-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote:

> Hi Alan
>
> So I think here are my priorities, in no particular order:
>
> 1) wxWidgets Docs - the driver doc is currently well out of date and
> the binding docs are non-existent. I have rewritten the driver docs
> and started on the bindings. As you said in your release notes the
> docs are probably still a weak point and I'm a firm believer that a
> library is only as good as it's documentation - clever features are no
> god if the users don't know they exist or how to use them.

That is a really good way to express the documentation issue.  I think
we are now headed in the right direction there, but there is still lots
more to do, and I am glad you are planning to help with that task.

>
> 2) The fill bug where the whole plot gets accidentally filled - I
> can't remember if that still exits or if a workaround fix was added.

I will take responsibility for that issue (see my separate post on
that).

>
> 3) I have on my old to do list something about the selectable region
> in x03.3 not being implemented. I should look at that.
>
> 4) Plexit. I agree this really needs sorting. However I found at least
> one side effect that we would need to deal with - I'll send another
> email out immediately after this one.
>
> 5) I'll add that incorrect background colour to my list.
>
> 6) I would like to add some useful additional features to the
> wxPLplotstream API that are particularly wxWidgets relevant. This
> would be some additional overloaded constructors and perhaps some
> features for plotting - for example it would be nice to be able to set
> the actual font face so that in a wxWidgets application a programmer
> could use a font dialog to ask the user which font they would like to
> use and then use it. This isn't currently possible at the moment where
> we just set the family.

These remaining steps all sound good to me.

Alan
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