Re: [guppi-list] Hacking continues unabated

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

Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:48:13AM +0100, Neil J Pilgrim wrote:

[Bug-fix]

> > > The way this is set up, axis DnD is optional; it only works if the
> > > axis is explicitly linked to one particular data-layer.
> >
> > Not sure I understand what you mean...
> 
> I'm home sick and running a fever, so don't be surprised if anything I
> say doesn't make sense.

Hope you get better soon.

> > I suppose you could get what I was thinking of by having multiple
> > overlaid scatter plots on the same graph, each having separate data
> > input dialogs in the config box. Based on some previous conversation we
> > had, I think that perhaps you'd need one input dialog per *style* -
> > currently you can't use the alternative styles anyhow ? I thought the
> > original idea was to be able to select/filter/copy data elements into
> > another style - would this be a separate scatter plot or separate
> > data-sets/styles on the same scatter plot...?
> 
> Yes.  Right now Guppi only defines "low-level" objects, which are
> manually pieced together for the demos.  There badly needs to be a
> higher-level way of constructing and operating on plots, but the exact
> details of that haven't really been hashed out yet.  The necessity of
> working out the details of this is becoming increasingly clear to me,
> though...

Ah right...so a 'scatter plot' is not really that much of a composite
object (implied by the config dialog) but just a particular combination
of primary objects ?

-- 
Neil