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Jean, on a side note, what is your comment on a quality of DISLIN generated plots?

There are already so many 3D plots, many are freeware.
Scilab, DISLIN ... Surfer 8 [dedicated Contour plot, not freeware].
I see DISLIN via a menu driven and equation editor, Mathcad style.
The first thing is a the same CreateMesh than Mathcad. Let say the
two planes X, Y and the level Z plane and in parametric style.
That sets the complete 3 D system, meshed at will and supporting
the entire user rotation from command line as well as cylindrical/
spherical plots and export the corresponding matrices. Contour is
something else of much different nature. Contour plots ends being
an XY plot. I have a Mathcad contour program [done by Collab].
Just scared to attempt Coding in Smath. Some of you gurus, I can
make an image of the program for your bed time reading.
There remains the question about freeware: how far can somebody
reverse Engineer and redistribute ?

Cheers Alex, Jean

... that's what I meant about a comprehensive "DISLIN start".
Contour is for exporting specific contour data. The feed is a
matrix, either well populated or splined and you get what you
want. Collapse the function, plug the matrix from source or
from function ... ready for the contour(s), just few clicks.

I lost patience trying to imitate Mathcad "on error".
So, attempting the program is not tempting.

The program images included in the *.sm work sheet.

Jean




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Hello.

Currently I'm working to improve SMath Studio start up time. Have good results (made it up to 4x faster), but I've found that DISLIN plug-in requires from 4 to 14 seconds (different environment) to response on call to GetTermsHandled. Which is the most significant part of SMath Studio start up time.

Is it possible to improve the logic here?

Best regards.

I'll see what I can do or will change the way I use it.

Updated. Refactored. Startup time has been reduced.

... native SS 6179 ... sorry but I have no interest *.svg
Stand alone user command line is more my cup of tea.

Updated.

Changes:

- updated to DISLIN 11.3.3 (799 functions);
- refactored.

Citazione

Grant of Free Usage

You are allowed to use DISLIN for free. Either as a private person or in a
commercial or non-commercial environment. There are no limitations.

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Plugin updated.

Changes:

- updated to DISLIN 11.5 (799 functions);
- string encoding bug fixed;
- refactored.

Plugin updated:
- Text descriptions added to the functions implemented in the plugin (>90% descriptions found).

Here you need to keep in mind that the source file with a list of functions is automatically formed using the template distinct.tt. Therefore, it is advisable to come up with a way of automatically adding a description to each function.