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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu Subject: SUBMISSION: Gnuplot NeXTSTEP Interface 1.2 Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com The latest version of the NeXTSTEP interface for gnuplot has been submitted to sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. At both sites it currently resides in /pub/next/submissions. Because of the package's large size, I have split it into two files: one contains the source, the other the compiled application. Please see the README files at the FTP sites. Files: Gnuplot1.2_bin.README Gnuplot1.2_bin.tar.Z Gnuplot1.2_src.README Gnuplot1.2_src.tar.Z Additions in 1.2 ---------------- Extensive interactive help Now saves a plot as a Gnuplot Document, EPS, or TIFF. More control over the interpretation of data files Much more control over the placement of contour lines New style, steps, in Data Inspector Release includes a Workspace Contents Inspector for looking at the attributes of .gnuplot files from the Workspace (optional installation) Improvements in 1.2 ------------------- Underlying pasteboard operations have been improved. The plot image can be copied via the edit menu or dragged from the plot window to any destination expecting EPS, TIFF, or the filename of the EPS. The window behaves "nicely": if you drag the image, the window does not come to the front, but if you click the image, it does. The image drags with hysteresis, as well. The app is now much better at parsing text files that were created manually (i.e. with a text editor or gnuplot's "save" command, instead of with the NeXTSTEP interface). This greatly improves compatibility with existing gnuplot documents (can load all the standard demos now) and fixes a few problems with punctuation in function titles. The appearance and operation of the Data Inspector have been simplified and much of its functionality removed to a new Data Options Panel which allows, among other things, changing all selected functions' styles in one fell swoop. Each Inspector Pane is now loaded lazily -- the first time it is selected. Launch time is shorter. Nick Strobel's gnuplot NeXT terminal can be used when running Gnuplot from the command line. Two independent sets of ranges are stored for each plot now, one for cartesian plots and one for polar plots. The result is that pressing the polar button in the General Inspector twice does not mess up your ranges. Adding, modifying, and deleting user-defined tic marks in the Tic Options Panel is easier because the auto-selection of tic marks in the scroll list is sensible. All text fields now apply their text when Return or Tab is pressed. Fixes in 1.2 ------------ Contour status of a plot is now set properly when the plot is opened. Copy menu command correctly copies EPS (and TIFF, filename) when plot window is key. App no longer crashes when you bring up the Inspector with no current document. A problem with quotation marks in titles and labels throughout the app has been fixed -- the NeXTSTEP interface allowed nested quotes, but gnuplot did not. Now neither does. Cursor no longer changes to an I-Beam over areas of the Inspector panel that formerly contained text fields. Choosing Close from the Plot menu then choosing Cancel from the Save Panel no longer closes an unsaved plot. A sneaky little bug that caused random crashes, especially when opening and closing many documents or adding and deleting many different functions or data files, has been fixed. Selecting multiple data files in the Workspace and choosing one of the "Plot in Gnuplot" services now correctly plots all the data files and not just the first one. The Windows menu no longer becomes unreasonably wide. Please send your comments, suggestions, criticism, and bug reports to Robert Davis (davis@sonata.cc.purdue.edu).
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.