drpwindow), rather than to open a
new window by its own. The driver will also allow plotting over
existing plots, which is used e.g. to plot baseline fits on top
of a spectrum plotted earlier by an independent program.
The metacode driver is used to implement the
hardcopy
and
reshow facility. (The reshow program is used by drpwindow
to redraw itself when needed.)
The metacode driver will write to a (binary) file called
.metacode.drp (use ls -a $HOME to see it).
The source code for drpwindow uses plain X~Toolkit routines
in order to facilitate porting to various flavours of UNIX with
different window managers (e.g. Motif, OpenLook etc.). So far
drpwindow does not use the X resource mechanism, it will
open a window a quarter of the size of your screen (half the width
and height), but you can always drag it to the size you like, of course,
once it has opened.
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