Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot & wxWindows

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

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Farzin Shakib wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any plans on adding the wxWindows driver to PLplot?

I am not aware of any such plans.  The problem is that none of the core
developers, AFAIK, have access to wxWindows.  However, if you or anyone in
your company would like to work on this, we would be glad to cooperate. It's
a shame that wxWindows users of plplot don't have access to all the bug
fixes and new features that have occurred in PLplot since January 1999.

>
> Such driver has been developed by Frank Huebner (based on
> plplot-990122), see: http://www.wxwindows.org/technote/plotting.htm.
> But I assume it needs to be updated for 5.1.

There have been some changes in the driver model, but I think upgrading
Frank Huebner's work to PLplot-5.1 should not be that difficult because so
many drivers currently exist that are templates for how to do it.  You
should read plplot/drivers/README.drivers.  That file is Unix/Linux
specific, but there is also general driver information there. For
non-Unix/Linux driver templates, it would be worth your while to have a look
at plplot/sys/dos/djgpp and plplot/sys/win32/msdev/.  I haven't used these
parts of the PLplot tree myself, but I know they have been recently updated
(including drivers) so that PLplot 5.1 works well in the DOS/DJGPP
environment and the windows 98, NT, and 2000 environments.

Upgrading the wxWindows driver to plplot 5.1 should pay big dividends for
wxWindows users, and I wish you well if you decide to do this project.

Alan

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