[Plplot-devel] Re: [Plplot-core] State of our statistics

[Joao C. <jc...@fe...>]

On Friday 25 October 2002 22:45, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
> > Please see it at:
> >
> > http://plplot.sourceforge.net/nexamples/
> >
> > (notice, I have not changed the originals, the name is nexamples, not
> > examples)
> >
> > The procedure was somewhat automated, so some things are not yet OK.
> > I think that it is much better now. What do you think?
>
> I think this organization is much better than what we currently have in
> examples.  However, I have some additional comments/questions.
>
> (1) If we change the example source in CVS will the source you show on =
the
> web site also be automatically changed or will that be a maintenance
> problem?

Of course the web site must be updated!

>
> (2) Same question for the images.  I ask this because right now keeping=
 the
> images in sync with the CVS software is a maintenance problem, and it w=
ould
> be nice if that were more automated, i.e., a script to generate say all=
 the
> C examples as png images on your home machine (a cut-down version of
> plplot-test.sh) and update the website appropriately like what we do fo=
r
> the documentation, now.

I created a script to automate things. After configure, make, make cdemos=
, in=20
the plplot tmp directory, the script will generate the pictures and=20
thumbnails and populate another tree with both the source examples, the=20
thumbnails and the pictures. Thus, there is no need to keep the sources,=20
pictures and thumbnails in CVS.

The script is of course crude. I attach it at the end.

If the examples change (more generated pages, e.g.), then the index.php m=
ust=20
be hand-edited.


>
> (3) The full-size images are fine, but the thumb-nail images are largel=
y
> just a black square on both konqueor and mozilla.

It didn't look like that to me... and thumbnails of plots can't be like=20
thumbnails of images.

>  To get the lines to show
> for the thumbnails perhaps you need a wider pen width?

I don't think so, but you can try. Anyway, I must now "publish or die", s=
o I=20
don't have the time.

Joao

>  The png device
> honors pen width requests if you have libgd version 2 installed.
>
> Alan