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Re: need more plotting symbols please [message #50424 is a reply to message #50060]

Mon, 02 October 2006 11:14

Jean H.
Messages: 472
Registered: July 2006

Senior Member

Why not using a keyword, so the user can keep the old indices (default),
or use the shiffted ones? ... everybody would be happy!

just a thought...

Jean

David Fanning wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>
>
>> Oh, right. I didn't think of that. I'll fix that myself. I've screwed
>> up index 8, too. Humm. I should have spent a few more minutes thinking
>> about this, it looks like. :-(
>>
>> I'll have something new later today.
>
>
> OK, here is another interface dilemma. I screwed up
> before by not thinking as clearly as I should have about
> what I was doing. (I'm certain this doesn't happen to you.)
>
> So, out of 44 indices, I should have reserved 8 and 10 for
> what the user expects them to be. I didn't. So now I want
> to reserve them. This means I either (1) map this functionality
> to unused index numbers, say 45 and 46, which REALLY defeats
> the user's expectation, or (2) map these to what the user
> expects but change the old numbers out from under all the
> thousands of users (I'm being facetious) that have already
> downloaded SYMCAT.
>
> I've chosen option 2. I've thought hard about it. I don't
> like it. But that's what I've done. Mostly this decision
> stems from a GREAT reluctance to change an already-defined
> interface, and from a bet that not too many people have
> already downloaded and are using SYMCAT in their programs.
> I could be completely wrong, but that's how these kinds
> of decisions get made, for better or worse. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

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		need more plotting symbols please By: Dilkushi@gmail.com on Thu, 31 August 2006 15:14
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 October 2006 11:30
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: Jean H. on Mon, 02 October 2006 11:14
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 October 2006 11:00
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 October 2006 10:23
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: don.woodraska on Mon, 02 October 2006 10:02
		Re: need more plotting symbols please By: David Fanning on Mon, 02 October 2006 09:24

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