pturner@ese.ese.ogi.edu (Paul Turner) (12/07/90)
Xvgr is a data plotting tool written with the XView toolkit. Thanks to all who have sent bug reports and letters of encouragement. I've fixed a few problems with xvgr and the result is available via anonymous ftp to ese3.ese.ogi.edu [129.95.20.62] in pub/grtool/xvgr-1.07alpha.tar.Z. Be sure to set transfer type to binary. There is also a patch that will take a clean 1.06alpha to 1.07alpha for those interested - get the file xvgr1.06to1.07.patch. There is a new driver for the FrameMaker .mif format, courtesy of Alan J. Snyder (asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu). This will, for our site and many others, constitute a very valuable addition. Thank you, Alan. The "xvgr crashes when not given a data file on the command line" bug has been temporarily fixed. See the README for more information. Obviously, one is not allowed to use the Notice package until after the main window has appeared on the display. The problem has shown up on color Suns with X11/R4 and manifests itself in a different way on our RS6000s - X11/R3. The fix should cover all types of displays and servers, but may require selecting a command line option for X11/R3 servers. Let me know if there are still problems with this. There is a new item in 'Edit points', 'Goto', that allows the cursor to be warped to a specified (x, y) on the screen - using the locator to find an exact location on the screen can be frustrating, this should make it easier to get near a desired spot. I'm spending most of my time (i.e. spare time) working on xvgr Release 2.0 so I plan to do no more than apply bandaids to xvgr as it is now available. I am interested in coredumps and wrong answers, though, in the 1.0x versions and I would appreciate any reports of problems of this type. Release 2.0 is already doing contour plots with data slicing provided by bilinear interpolation - I think it will be pretty nice. The Motif version coughed up a graph the other night. --Paul Paul J Turner pturner@ese.ogi.edu