Re: Re: Problems with new plot widget

I forgot to mention: you can set the labels prefix/suffix as well as 
your custom labels by using the "tick_label" signal (see testgtkplot.c)
Best,
<ADRIAN>

John Gotts wrote:

>I think you'll find that axis_set_ticks() changes both the left and right axes
>while axis_set_ticks() only changes the specified axis for the top and bottom
>as it should.  A part of my graph that looked correct was actually displaying
>the bug, because I invoked axis_set_ticks() twice yet three axes were correct.
>(The graph was initialized as (0..1, 0..1).)
>
>Thanks for the other information.  It should polish up my graphs considerably.
>
>In message <[email protected]>, "Adrian E. Feiguin" writes:
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>>Hi John!
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>>John Gotts wrote:
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>>>In message <[email protected]>, "Adrian E. Feiguin" writes:
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>>>>Sorry, sorry, I didn't read your mail carefully. Actually, I replced 
>>>>those values in testgtkplot.c in gtkextra-1.0.0, and everything works as 
>>>>expected. Try it out, and see if you can reproduce it using testgtkplot. 
>>>>I'm guessing that you may be using the wrong arguments.
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>>>I figured out what I did.  I used gtk_plot_axis_set_ticks() instead of
>>>gtk_plot_set_ticks().  gtk_plot_axis_set_ticks() worked fine for the y axis b
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>>ut
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>>>resulted in that bug for the x axis.  I'm not getting what the difference
>>>between the functions is, and whether gtk_plot_axis_set_ticks() should be a
>>>private method.
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>>I'm glad you found the problem. gtk_plot_set_ticks sets the axes ticks 
>>for both axes, while axis_set_ticks only for the axis in the argument. 
>>GtkPlotAxis is an object with its methods, and if you change a global 
>>property, the plot takes care of all the corresponding axes involved.
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>>>Also, could you explain the floating point arguments to
>>>gtk_plot_canvas_put_child()?  My assumption is that they are the percentage
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>>starting and ending points for the graph, without taking the axis labels or
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>>>ticks into consideration.
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>>That's correct, they are in percentage of the canvas page size.
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>>>Finally, our graphs would look better if we could leave all four axes painted
>>>but only display ticks for the left-hand and bottom axes.  I didn't see a way
>>>of displaying axes but not ticks.  Also, it would be nice to be able to speci
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>>fy
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>>>a printf()-style format string for the ticks.  Our graphs display units of
>>>currency, which as you know are normally demoninated in hundredths (Euro
>>>cents).
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>>You have to use gtk_plot_axis_show_ticks and _show_labels.
>>the mask can be one or combitations of GTK_PLOT_TICKS_NONE, IN, OUT
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>>Good luck. Saludos,
>><ADRIAN>
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>>>John
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