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Subject:    Re: wxWidgets terminal : XPM cursors and icons
From:       Timothée Lecomte <timothee.lecomte () ens ! fr>
Date:       2006-06-07 7:03:04
Message-ID: 4486871D.7060106 () ens ! fr
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Ethan A Merritt wrote:> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:01 am, you wrote:>   >>>   >>>   \
>> Let's discuss on a practical case, and on a specific aspect of the >> problem : \
> > the fonts scaling (the aspect ratio behaviour is related, if I >> give up on \
> > fonts, I will give up on the aspect ratio immediately).>> I loaded multiplt.dem \
> > on both wxt and x11 with their default sizes which >> are in the order of \
> > 600x400, and then resized both windows to make them >> smaller.>> Attached is the \
> > final screenshot. I honestly prefer the wxt output, even >> if none of them are \
> > really readable.>>     >> But you are focusing on the size (big/small) rather \
> > than the aspect> ratio.  Most of the time if I want to resize a window it is to \
> > spread out> the plot either horizontally or vertically.  The whole point  of> the \
> > exercise is to change the aspect ratio.  Making it bigger or smaller> is just a \
> > side effect.  I really don't care much about the fonts in> such a case.>> \
> > Example:> The 4th plot of 'histograms.dem' works much better if the> plot is \
> > taller than it is wide.  If I step through the demo in x11> I can just drag the \
> > bottom edge of the window down and it spreads> itself out nicely.  Dragging the \
> > bottom edge of the wxt window> down accomplishes exactly nothing, at least not \
> > without a subseqent> replot command.>> The more common case for me is examining \
> > plots of a time-series.> I have standard scripts, but the length of time covered \
> > by the data> can vary. I load the script and a plot pops up; if it corresponds> \
> > to a long run, then I immediately want to stretch it in the horizontal> in order \
> > to separate closely space features in the plot. This works> quite naturally (to \
> > me) in x11, but again accomplishes nothing in the> wxt terminal unless I \
> > explicitly replot after stretching the window.  >> My thinking is that if the \
> > user changes the size/shape of the window,> it is because he wants the plot to be \
> > that size/shape.  Making the> pure horizontal or pure vertical stretch operations \
> > be effectively> no-ops seems a strange choice.>   Your example are convincing. \
> > And the statement that the terminal should follow the user's change makes sense. \
> > But to my mind, only a full 'replot'-based solution is satifactory, otherwise \
> > resizing doesn't respect 'set size ratio -1' for example.I am coming to the \
> > conclusion that it's not really a big deal, that it can be solved later and \
> > definitely by hacking on 'replot'.What I can do to make the behaviour more \
> > understandable is to make the window background gray, maybe adding a message \
> > somewhere (in the status bar probably) that hitting 'replot' will fill the \
> > window.
Timothée


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