About Dislin Library

[Alex]

Hello!
At the beginning, I really liked the Dislin library. However, I had the following concerns in terms of its further use in my projects:
- one person develops the library and if he stops supporting it, he will have to abandon it;
- I compiled Tuchin's example in CodeBlocks for C++ and also got the following errors:
 <<<< Warning 3: Incorrect level in chacod!   ( 0)
 <<<< Warning 3: Incorrect level in winfnt!   ( 0)
How can these errors affect the behavior of the program? How quickly are errors fixed?
In addition, I would also like to understand how much you can trust this library in terms of its further use in your projects?

I ask the author of the library not to be offended by my words. I really like this library for its small size, cross-platform, ease of use, but I have to think about the future.

[Helmut Michels]

Hi Alex,

the documentation of chacod and winmod explains that these routines must be called in level 1, 2 or 3. This means

that they must be called between disini and disfin, which is obvious not the case in the example code. The level structure

is one of the basic concepts of Dislin and should be well-known by Dislin programmers. User errors can affect programs

in many ways, and  Dislin helps to find such errors by giving some warnings.  Bugs within the Dislin code are normally fixed 

with the next upgrade, but they are reported very seldom. Dislin is a frequently used library since nearly 40 years, and 

therefore very error-free.  Dislin is now nearly a finished project. There will be some bug fixes in the future, and perhaps some

ports to other processors or operating systems,  but no more heavy development of new features. So, if you can't live with

the current status of Dislin, you should take a look at other softwares.

With best regards,

Helmut

[Alex]

Hi, Helmut!

Thanks for the explanation. Apparently, Dislin is not what I need.