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DanRRight · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:58 am Post subject:

Ken, How about
Xmin=Ymin=-2
Xmax=Ymax=3 ?

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:40 am Post subject:

Yes Dan, I was too quick there. Solved a particular case rather than the general. One of the pleasures (?) of this game. Ken

I HAVE DELETED THE CODE I POSTED HERE EARLIER AS IT STILL GENERATED AN ERROR IN SOME TEST CASES

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:56 am Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback. Ken's first sample reveals a bug in GET_PLOT_POINT@ that has now been fixed. Hopefully the alternative approaches will no longer be needed with the next release.

Ken's sample also reveals missing tick marks and grid lines and issue is currently outstanding.

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:23 am Post subject:

Paul,
I stumbled upon this yesterday by accident when one of my colleagues put "silly" data into one of my applications.
Do you have a timescale for making an updated DLL available? I am beginning to use %pl in earnest now with my applications. I guess you may have been working on the scale issues we have been collectively grumbling about for 6 months now?
Thanks
Ken

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:57 pm Post subject:

Ken

I am not sure when we will release a new ClearWin+. We may have to wait till the personal edition for v8.2 is released otherwise we could easily get out of step for some users.

I will see if it is possible to make a new ClearWin+ only work with v8.20.

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks Paul, No major show stoppers at present- you've seen a few of my work arounds on here. I understand/appreciate the issue with the personal users. I started dabbling with FTN95 there myself a few years ago. Ken

PaulLaidler · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:49 pm Post subject:

You have to play with the input parameters to see the failure.
All of this (relating to Dan's program and Ken's program) has now been fixed. For the next release of the ClearWin+ library. Dan's original code (with minor adjustments) will probably also work.

DanRRight · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks Paul.
And great when there is a lot of interested users, the pants on devilry responsible on all FTN95 bugs burn like a fire near mount Diablo.

DanRRight · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:53 am Post subject:

And one minor detail for quick fix for Paul: the minus sign in negative part of Y axis in my or Ken's examples is also placed way too far from the number labels. I had to photoshop spaces out before showing plots to others

PaulLaidler · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:41 pm Post subject:

Dan

If you mean, for example, the distance between '-' and '3' in -3.0 then that depends only on the font that is used. There is no space character that separates the minus from the 3.0.

You could try using different fonts in your code to see if another font gives a better result.

DanRRight · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:46 pm Post subject:

All,
Can you confirm Paul's words using his own last example on page 17? I see on X axis the minus sign on labels looks OK, on Y axis it is way off, specifically with large fonts, any type of fonts

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:15 am Post subject:

The second plot below shows Dan's extra space between minus sign and number.

DanRRight · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:40 am Post subject:

Thanks, Ken, this on the right is what i see. And sometimes this becomes a disaster like here

Kenneth_Smith · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:11 am Post subject:

Disaster indeed Dan, that's another reason why on option to place the scales out side the frame would be beneficial. It would eliminate the scale text from x and y axis overlapping in cases like this:-

PaulLaidler · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:27 am Post subject:

Ken

How did you get a y interval of 3 and just one significant figure in the y values?