ANNOUNCE: GtkPlot-5.0

[Adrian Feiguin <feiguin magnet fsu edu>]

GtkPlot-5.0
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Major changes and many bugfixes:

- Removal of most of the flags, now use
  gtk_plot_axis/grids_set_visibility to show/hide axis

- Added masks for minor ticks

- Replacement of GtkPlotFont by GtkPSFont

- Redefinition of GtkPlotFunction. 
  Now it passes the plot and dataset as arguments (see headers).

- Lots of memory leaks fixed by Theodore Roth.

- Bug fixes.


Thanks to:
 Carl Lejjdfors <Calle.Lejdfors@teokem.lu.se>
 Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
 Theodore Roth <troth@verinet.com>
 Sanjay Bhatnagar <sanjay@ncra.tifr.res.in>
 Wolfgang Glas <Wolfgang.Glas@hfm.tu-graz.ac.at>

and many others...


GtkPlot-4.1
===========

- New real time demo (realdemo).

- New functions:
  * gtk_plot_layout_refresh 
    Redraws the plots and backing pixmap, much faster 
    than GtkLayout, recomended for real time simulations and fast updates.

  * gtk_plot_paint 
    Redraws the plot on the backing pixmap, which can be
    displayed using gtk_plot_refresh. Actually, gtk_plot_draw is a combination
    of both.

  * gtk_plot_set/get_xrange.
  * gtk_plot_set/get_yrange.

  * gtk_plot_dataset_show/hide_legend (added by Wolfgang Gas, see below)


- Three patches posted by Wolfgang Glas <Wolfgang.Glas@hfm.tu-graz.ac.at>:

  * Fixes for the warnings compiling on win32.
  * Hiding/showing datasets' legends.
  * fixes in gtkplot.c and gtkplotprint.c

  Thanks a lot, Wolfgang! 

- Thanks to Clark E. Dorman <dorman@s3i.com> for his fixes with ticks.

- Thanks to Sunjay Bhatnagar <sanjay@ncra.tifr.res.in> for all his comments
  and suggestions


GtkPlot-4.0
===========

- Lots of bugfixes and enhancements.

- Improvements in printing drivers.

- New representation for data using arrays for x, y, dx, dy values.
  Each set of values is stored in an array:
    gdouble x[];
    gdouble y[];
    gdouble dx[];
    gdouble dy[];
  You can use the same x values for two different datasets.
  (See examples in the demo program)

_ GtkPlotPoint structure removed.

- New functions
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_x.
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_y.
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_dx.
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_dy.
  gtk_plot_dataset_get_x.
  gtk_plot_dataset_get_y.
  gtk_plot_dataset_get_dx.
  gtk_plot_dataset_get_dy.
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_numpoints.
  gtk_plot_dataset_get_numpoints.

- Changes in some functions:
  gtk_plot_dataset_set_points.
  gtk_plot_axis_set_ticks.


GtkPlot-3.1
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- New action:
  Select region with the mouse. The signal "select_region"
  will return the coordinates of the selected area: 
  xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax. Useful if you want to implement zoom.

- Text with justification.

- Centered axis titles.

- Bugfixes in gtkplotps.


GtkPlot-3.0
===========

- New Font policy. 
  Fonts are identified by a user_name and/or the standard PostScript name.
  The 35 names are listed in gtkplotfont.h
  All function requiring font settings need the font name and
  font height instead of a GdkFont.
  You can add your own user fonts using gtk_plot_font_add(...) declaring
  both names and two possible Xfonts used to display them on the X window.

- PostScript Driver.
  Completely separated from the widget main code in gtkplotps.
  Exporting functions:
     * gtk_plot_export_ps
     * gtk_plot_layout_export_ps
  (It would probably need some fixes, I'll be waiting for your reports).
  The demo program generates plotdemo.ps as example.

- Some internal changes (bugfixes and enhancements).

Thanks to Alexander Larsson and Arjan Molenaar, authors of DiaCanvas and
Dia, for allowing me to borrow some ideas from his code for the 
PostScript driver and fonts handling.

Special thanks to Roberto Alameda <ral1@ibm.net>, author of FontViewer 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/
for his illuminating ideas and helpful tips about fonts.

GtkPlot-2.0
===========

Sorry for not being very explicit, but I'll describe only an outline of 
the latest changes because is difficult to keep track of all of them.
To move from 1.x to 2.x you'll have to change some few function calls
concerning to the attributes settings. It's easy to realize the changes
during compilation time, just take a look at the headers when you get an error.

- New GtkPlotCanvas widget which allows DnD. See demo.

- Lots of changes in internal routines for optimization and versatility. 

- Changed some function calls.
  Sometimes you'll need to give a GdkColor * value. If you set NULL,
  means using defaults: black for foregrounds and transparent for backgrounds.
  If you set gc == NULL, means using default gc. 

- New functions added.
  gtk_plot_refresh,
  gtk_plot_show_labels,
  gtk_plot_layout_put_text,
  etc, etc.

- typedef GtkPlotFunc for drawing functions.

- New signals: plot->moved, plot->resized.
  Your signals handlers must return TRUE if you want the changes 
  to be accepted. Same is valid for GtkPlotCanvas signals.

- Some minor bugfixes.
  gtk_plot_put_text. (I recommend gtk_plot_layout_put_text, instead).
  Fixed rounding errors in axis, ticks marks, and grids drawing routines.

- New demo program.


GtkPlot-1.1
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- You can change background color for gtkplot and gtkplotlayout using

  gtk_plot_layout_set_background(GtkPlotLayout *layout, GdkColor color);
  gtk_plot_set_background(GtkPlot *plot, GdkColor color);

- Many functions modified to set foreground and background colors for
  labels and titles.

- Fixes in the GtkPlotLayout scrolling.