From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Fri Apr  2 18:07:32 1999
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:07:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: X11 Device Driver
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990402161719.3510B-100000@g.ihaka.slip.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904020905040.27714-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Ross Ihaka wrote:

> 
> So, one question is:  How should this functionality be packaged?
>\ 
> One possibility is to have multiple X11 device driver entry points
> 
>     X11.mono, X11.gray, X11.pseudo1, X11.pseudo2, X11.color
> 
> This would be useful because people could use options() to set
> the appropriate default device.
> 
> Another possibility would be to have use an additional argument to
> the driver and to make it rather more meaningful than 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.

I'd prefer this one 


> Perhaps there are better ideas also.
> 
> A second question is what should the default behavior be on Pseudocolor
> devices; Pseudocolor1 or Pseudocolor2?

I would go for allocating colors on demand, especially if we can print out
a message suggesting the color cube driver when colors run out.

	-thomas


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X11 Device Driver
Thomas Lumley