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Re: hos command does not show graphics handles


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: hos command does not show graphics handles
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:59:25 +0300

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Michael D. Godfrey
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 1. Implement the use of property "renderer" to determine
>>     fltk (OpenGL) or gnuplot.
>
> Just for the sake of clarity: do not confuse "backend" and "renderer",
> there's no 1-to-1 match. The backend provides the windowing
> capabilities, while the renderer is just responsible for rendering
> plot data. Although this is not the case at the moment, you
> can have theoretically several renderer supported by a single
> backend (e.g. OpenGL, cairo...).
and also several backends supporting the same renderer -- i.e.
fltk_backend, and a yet to be written postscript backend using the
opengl-render

Shai



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