Re: [Plplot-devel] plenv() issues

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

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 06:17, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin writes:
>  > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
>  > > What do you think of this problem? Is there a "cure" that does not
>  > > influence other users?
>  >
>  > How about define plenv0 which does everything but the page advance?=20
>  > Then define plenv as the combination of pladv and plenv0.
>  >
>  > I know this adds one more piece of public API that we have to propag=
ate
>  > to all the language interfaces *and* document, but that is pretty
>  > straightforward, and we currently have so many variations on our sta=
rtup
>  > commands (think of all the plstart variations), and our advance page
>  > commands, that adding another convenient plenv variation isn't that =
big
>  > a deal IMO.
>  >
>  > Geoffrey and Maurice, is such a solution OK with you?
>
> Sure.  I've never been completely happy with the behavior of plenv in t=
his
> regard either.

OK, I will work on it soon.

Do you think that plenv0() should clear the page? I think it should!

As plclear() is not currently working (no driver but the gnome one suppor=
ts=20
it) I will also change it, issuing a solid fill with the background color=
=20
when the driver does not support clear.=20

Joao