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

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

On Friday 25 October 2002 23:42, Joao Cardoso wrote:
> 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, n=
ot
> > > examples)
> > >
> > > The procedure was somewhat automated, so some things are not yet OK=
=2E
> > > 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 o=
n
> > the web site also be automatically changed or will that be a maintena=
nce
> > problem?
>
> Of course the web site must be updated!
>
> > (2) Same question for the images.  I ask this because right now keepi=
ng
> > the images in sync with the CVS software is a maintenance problem, an=
d it
> > would 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 ver=
sion
> > of plplot-test.sh) and update the website appropriately like what we =
do
> > for the documentation, now.
>
> I created a script to automate things. After configure, make, make cdem=
os,
> in the plplot tmp directory, the script will generate the pictures and
> thumbnails and populate another tree with both the source examples, the
> thumbnails and the pictures. Thus, there is no need to keep the sources=
,
> 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
> must be hand-edited.
>
> > (3) The full-size images are fine, but the thumb-nail images are larg=
ely
> > 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
> thumbnails of images.

humm, as a matter of fact in my home monitor the plots looks like fadding=
 --=20
so we have another API entry, plfade() :-)

Joao

>
> >  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",=
 so
> I don't have the time.

However I can CVS commit the index.php files, and the script to populate =
a www=20
directory. Shall the old examples files be CVS removed?
The index.php files must still be filled with the standard left navigatio=
n=20
links and be more html-conformant; the x14 and x17 examples should be rem=
oved=20
from examples.html; etc... other comments?

Joao

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