Re: [Plplot-devel] Please try out xw09.py as a prototype for the rest of the front ends

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

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Joao Cardoso wrote:

> > I am not going to worry about this one since such comparisons work great
> > for my version of numpy (20.1, brought out in September).  This version is
> > part of Debian woody because woody hadn't gone into freeze at that point.
> > I think other distributions will also soon adopt numpy 20.1 (or even 20.2
> > which was brought out in December).
>
> Don't forget to say this in the releases notes!

Thanks for this suggestion.

> > Could you check these scripts again, please, (by running plplot-test.tcl)
> > for my newly committed changes?  Thanks in advance....
>
> They now run OK (except x09). In the "bogun density" example, no contour
> lines appear; also, it uses a gray colormap, instead of the default one.

The lack of contour lines is because xw16 is an old non-compliant example
using plshade with plcont commented out.  I plan to make xw16 compliant with
the other examples (e.g., using plshades which is a better API for continous
colours and which calls plcont internally) before the release.

I confirm the colour map problem for xw16 when running pythondemos.py. It is
due to xw08 not setting the default cmap1 colours after it does the 3d shade
plots.  It turns out that tcldemos.tcl has exactly the same cross-talk
problem (not seen before because cmap1 was not used in example 8 for python
and tcl before I recently brought those examples into compliance with the
rest).  Thanks for drawing my attention to this, and I hope to get out
"return cmap1 to default" fixes to xw08.py and x08.tcl (and similarly for
example 16) before the release.  Such fixes are not required for the other
front ends since they are only designed to be run one-at-a-time.

Alan