From graphics-request at octave dot org Sun Dec  5 22:10:49 2004
Subject: Re: Oplot
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: graphics at octave dot org
Cc: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:13:18 -0600

Paul Kienzle wrote:

> If you have get/set implemented in a compatible way, by all means have 
> somebody put them into octave-forge.
>
> Similarly, all high-level functions like plot which should work 
> identically no matter what the underlying graphics engine actually 
> displays it.  Presumably they should translate the various options 
> into the underlying get/set calls from handles returned by 
> figure/axes/line/patch primitives.  An interface to
> gnuplot can be implemented on top of that if anyone is so inclined.


I'm not completely following the discussion on the graphics interface.  
However, I'd suggest an organized design.  Is the idea that there would 
be a variable that will indicate which graphics system gnuplot is 
currently using?  One we could test to know that we are running gnuplot 
as the graphics engine?  Would there be a subdirectory for plotting 
scripts for each of the plotting packages?

Dan