[racket-dev] New plot library [Was: (to Jay) Re: What I'm working on]

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Aug 2 16:28:05 EDT 2011

About a minute ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:20:43 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > This replacement would be great -- it's pretty bad now that it
> > goes out to a(n outdated) C library with inferior graphic
> > capabilities, draws the graph into a temporary file which is then
> > loaded back in Racket.
> 
> No, the current plot draws via dc<%> to a bitmap. I threw out the
> old back end and installed callbacks that use `racket/draw' as of
> v5.1.

Ah, so that probably makes things even easier for Neil.


> The pixels changed a lot with that switch, of course, so I don't
> think anyone cares about changes at that level.

Yeah.

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