Re: [guppi-list] Hacking continues unabated

[Neil J Pilgrim <eennjp electeng leeds ac uk>]

Jon Trowbridge wrote:

[snip]

> * Drag & drop has been added.  You can now drag data objects out of
>   the data window and drop them onto scatterplot axes (or onto
>   data selector widgets, which have also been rewritten to be nicer).

Data-selector widgets? If you mean the box-plots, then for me it appears
to do the same thing as dropping on the axes. Also while DnD'ing the
data onto axes is quite nice, in doing so you disallow multiple
data-sets on the same graph. For each graph I'd imagined a series of
graph-sets, each holding a number of data-sets: drag a data object (set)
to a graph-set (the x or y component in a scatter plot) rather than an
axis. Clearly some sets might have the same X (or even Y) axis values
(especially in bar-graphs, etc.).

Perhaps this is what you meant by data selector widgets and I've not
found them ?

> * I've fixed tool handling.  Rather than having a bunch of bizarre mouse
>   button bindings, there is now a "tool toolbar".  (Which is partially
>   text now: if anyone is good at drawing pretty icons, let me know.)

This is better, though a lot of them don't work ATM...which I'm sure you
knew anyhow ;)

> * Keyboard bindings have been added.  You can use the arrow keys to
>   pan around a scatter plot, etc.

I can move around, but anything else? Problem with key use in this sort
of program is not knowing how much to move axes by, etc.

> * Plot axes are now labelled by the name of the attached data.

See above...

> * There is now a dialog for editting text elements (like the title of
>   a plot).

The title length can wrap over the end of the screen. Also, while
automatically-moved axis titles are ok, it would be nice to be able to
explicitly move them where you want - so you'd have
'left/centre/right/free' settings for positioning, for example ?

> * The configuration tree widget has been re-written so as to suck
>   less.

The results part of the slinreg (or whatever its called) causes a crash
with:

plot::slinreg-ERROR **: Couldn't find "slinreg-statviewer.glade"
aborting...

I didn't install, but am running from src/guppi - could this be the
reason ?

[snip]

> Anyone brave and curious might try building it out of CVS.  Based on
> the feedback I get from that, I'll probably release another snapshot
> soon.

Have built ;)

-- 
Neil