On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 09:45 AM, Tsu-Chien Weng wrote:
Hi Dr. Newville,
Yes, I just tried newplot() with PGPlot/AQT, not in rootless XFree86. Since I'm a new user, I've not tried many functions Wow! That's amazing! Thanks for the pointers on building this PGPLOT driver and using it with ifeffit. How does it compare with the X-Windows output?
I grabbed few screenshots and put them in http://homepage.mac.com/tsuchien/PhotoAlbum2.html. They seems fine to me.
As Paul pointed out:
... but now that I have gifeffit running, it is clear that it very much an X11 application and will be hard to change and currently all GUIs for ifeffit require X because they use the Tk widget set. A more native Mac GUI would be possible, but at ... Since Tk worked on Mac OS9, it might be possible that python/Tk could work without X (I had heard that it did, but wasn't
Thanks for clearing up my thought on G.I.FEFFIT. I just learn that GUI control in Cocoa is similar to uicontrol() in matlab (in some ways). To write a native GUI will be an interesting project, but my beamtime at BioCAT is next Wednesday. Hope I can find more time after that.
Tsu-Chien <Chien>001000</Chien>
A native interface would be a very nice thing. I have started studying Cocoa and have found what appears to be an excellent book on the subject that I thought I would pass along, namely " Cocoa: Programming for Mac OS X" by Aarn Hillegass. I have only read the first chapter or so, but I it looks like a very friendly environment (you can lean on the application frameworks very heavily). I still have no real idea how hard it would be to port gifeffit in some semi-automated way to Cocoa (gifeffit is still changing so incorporating changes in a reasonable time seems like an important priority.) Paul
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