Re: images

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:

| Although "Premature optimization is the root of all evil", the way I handle
| this in octplot is that at object creation it's max & min are calculated and
| stored in the object, and this is used each time to get axes limits -- thus
| you do have to traverse the object tree to get the axes limits, but you do
| need to cal max/min of (possibly) very large datasets each time you want to
| draw.

OK, that's a good idea, but again, the current code is a temporary
solution.  It is not perfect.  It does not have to be perfect, or
really fast.  But it does help if it more or less works.

| Also, why not do it in one for loop:
| construct the plotting string and get the limits in the same loop. At the
| end of the loop, append the limits statement.

OK, sure we could do this, but see again my statement above.

Patches welcome.

jwe