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- From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Stanford Graphics
- Message-ID: <25014@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:02:36 GMT
- References: <24455@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Sep14.141940.6603@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In comp.os.ms-windows.apps, root@geophys.mcgill.ca (Steeve) writes:
- > I agree with your complaints and your excitement. Version 2.0 is
- >much better (it's only crashed on me once in the last two weeks) but
- >the screen redraws are really annoying. I don't know if you are aware
- >though that you can stop the redraw by hitting ESC -- I've been hitting
- >that key A LOT and I've finally started to generate some decent plots,
- >at a resonable rate.
- ..
- > If anyone working at 3d visions is reading this it would be nice if
- >you could select an onscreen object and then use the TAB key to cycle
- >through them - sometimes it can be almost impossible to click on an
- >axis or particular curve.
-
- You can cycle through all objects on the screen, including axes and
- curves, using the up and down arrow keys.
-
- Some more impressions after using the program for another week:
-
- On a 486-50 with NEC 5D and MultiSync Graphics Engine, screen redraws
- are not much of a problem. In fact, rarely do I cancel a redraw from
- the keyboard unless I'm doing 3-D colormapped surfaces.
-
- The ability to have embedded, fully self-contained plots within a
- Winword document is convenient beyond words. Anyone who spends much
- time doing technical documents with lots of plots owes it to themselves
- to get a copy of SG or some other OLE-compatible graphing program.
-
- I haven't found any major annoyances in the program yet, other than
- the un-helpfulness of the printed and on-line help. One minor glitch
- involves axis labels on polar plots. I couldn't change the position
- of the labels on the radial axis, nor could I get an axis title.
-
- I'll still stick to my previously posted bottom line: great-looking
- output, more reliable than before, and overall a pretty good product.
-
- Chris
-