From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Mar 13 11:40:48 1999
Subject: Re: Canvas vs Plot Widget
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
Cc: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:38:29 -0600 (CST)

On 12-Mar-1999, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr> wrote:

| Oh, I thought you were not going to re-implementing things that are already
| done in plotting libraries.  Let us put this way: I would prefer to try to
| implement the Plot Widget using a plotting library at first.  If this
| happens to be a inappropriate or too constraining choice (e.g. it will
| prevent us of doing satanic Handle Graphics emulation), we may try to
| implement our own plotting library.

If we have to do that, it seems that we could probably start with the
code from some other plot widget or plotting library first.  So I
don't think we would have to reinvent the wheel completely.  Maybe we
would just have to reinvent steel-belted radials.

jwe