[gradsusr] grads 2 widgets

[Love, Mr. Gary, Contractor, Code 7542]

Hi developers,

We at NRL have the same problem since we make intensive use of the widgets. 
Our plan was to stay at version 2.0 for our GUI's and use 2.1 for background 
jobs.  A method to invoke the X11 widgets so we could maintain a single 
version would be greatly appreciated.

Gary Love

-----Original Message-----
From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On 
Behalf Of Davide Sacchetti
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2017 1:24 AM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: [gradsusr] grads 2 widgets

Hello developers:
just some basic consideration and a question/request about GrADS 2

Since 2013-12-16 with Version 2.1.a1 all the graphics are handled by the Cairo 
library.
Besides graphics quality has really improved a lot (fonts, contour,
etc.) there at least two drawbacks:
 * widgets have been temporarily disabled
 * graphics generation is markedly slower

In our center we make an intensive use of widgets (see attacc.) so we can't 
switch to recent versions (unless using -d X11).

Waiting for widgets to be enabled ... it would be great to have a chance to 
load X11 or Cairo on the fly. Something like perl modules commands "use" and 
"no": use X11, no X11, use Cairo, ...

In my mind I could use dropmenu in X11 and then display in Cairo but I have 
not idea if this request could be accomplished with a reasonable effort or not 
...

Best regards
Davide Sacchetti
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