[Plplot-devel] Status of new swig-based java interface for PLplot

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

I have made a lot of progress in the last couple of days with the new
swig-generated Java interface for PLplot.  (I should mention that it is only
because of Gary Bishop's pioneering efforts with the swig-generated python
interface to PLplot, that it is possible to build the java interface with
swig.) I have recently committed all my work on the java interface up to
now. Unlike the hand-crafted interface which was missing a lot of the PLplot
API, this swig-generated interface should be complete for whatever argument
list patterns have been covered.

The current status is that all PLplot functions in the common API with
variable arguments or single-dimension array float, double, or integer
arguments have been implemented.  Functions with character array arguments
and with two-dimensional array arguments still need to be implemented. That
means six of the examples (x08, x09, x11, x12, x15, and x16) won't compile,
but the rest of the examples do compile and run and give good results.
Furthermore, since the new java interface is complete (aside from the
exceptions noted above), x18.java works properly for the very first time.

Anyhow, this new interface looks extremely promising, and I hope to sort out
the remaining argument list patterns (and thus allow all the java examples
to compile and run) over the next several days.  Get in touch with me
privately if you want to know how to play with this new interface before it
is ready for prime time.

Alan

email: ir...@be...
phone: 250-727-2902	FAX: 250-721-7715
snail-mail:
Dr. Alan W. Irwin
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6
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