Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave: 0.3.0

[Alexander Barth]

Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> --- Alexander Barth <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I released version 0.3.0 of yapso. It is available at
> > http://yapso.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > and some demos are at:
> > http://yapso.sourceforge.net/demo/demo.html
> >
> > The package includes now coastline data (due to popular demand) which
> > explains its larger size.
> > New features include:
> > * display images (scalar fields or red, green, blue values),
> > * scatter plots (2D+3D)
> > * a more robust over-plotting (for example a quiver on top of a pcolor)
> > * filled contours (with code from Kai and Shai from octplot).
> >
> > Have fun,
> > Alex
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>
> Looks nice, but I need mouse zooming - IIRC it's on the list of fewquently
> requested options.
>
> --Sergei.

Thanks for your feedback!
I don't use the mouse much myself but I agree that mouse zooming would be
very useful for many users. Yapso currently uses the GLUT toolkit. I'm reluctant to add toolkit 
dependent code (such as mouse interaction) since I'm not sure if GLUT is really the way to go. GLUT 
is very easy to  use and good to get started with OpenGL. However, its functionality is also quite 
limited. So for the long-term I think yapso should use a more complete toolkit. The toolkit should 
also have a large user-base and cross-platform. I'm leaning toward GTK(mm). But porting yapso to 
another toolkit would be a substantial amount of work.

But if anyone wants to have mouse zooming right now, I'm sure it can be done with GLUT. I gladly 
will accept patches,.... ;-)

Alex