Re: Axes Ticks Positioning in 3D plots (FLTK)

[Michael Goffioul]

2011/1/10 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 9 January 2011 17:07, logari81 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In the attached patch I have modified the positioning of axes in 3D
>> plots, in order to make it more compatible with ML.
>
> Is this "compatibility"? I always thought of compatibility of just
> making sure code written for Matlab also work in Octave, not so much
> about superficial cosmetic differences. Will someone really complain
> about how incompatible Octave is because it displays ticks at top
> instead of bottom when you rotate to look at the bottom? I like how
> the ticks without your patch are always jutting out. With your patch,
> the ticks are either coming out of the screen or going into the screen
> depending on the elevation from which you're looking at the figure.

iirc, the funny thing is that I initially put the tick marks on top to be
compatible with Matlab (around 2007-2008)...

Michael.