PLGDRAWMODE(3plplot)

💅 PLGDRAWMODE (3plplot) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the PLplot API page for plgdrawmode — she's short, she's sweet, and she's lowkey mysterious 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plgdrawmode()

like… that's it. no args. she takes nothing and she gives you a vibe (technically a PLINT, but we'll get there 🦋)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So plgdrawmode() gets you the drawing mode. Simple concept, iconic execution 💅

but here's the tea, bestie — and this is important, no cap — only one device driver currently supports this at the moment, and that's cairo. Just cairo. That's the whole list. One (1) driver. 🫶

For that one glorious cairo case, the PLINT value this function hands back is one of these four:

• PL_DRAWMODE_DEFAULT — the default vibe ✨
• PL_DRAWMODE_REPLACE — replace mode, she's swapping things out
• PL_DRAWMODE_XOR — xor mode, doing her little bitwise thing 🔥
• PL_DRAWMODE_UNKNOWN — we literally don't know, and that's valid

And for the rest of the device drivers? This function returns PL_DRAWMODE_UNKNOWN. Every single one of them. Not a fan of that for them, but okay 😭

Also see plsdrawmode(3plplot) — that's the setter, the one who actually sets the mode. plgdrawmode just tells you what's up. iykyk 🧚

Redacted form: plgdrawmode() — yes, the redacted form is literally identical, she's not hiding anything 💀

This function is used in example 34. go look at example 34, it ate 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. fr fr, "many developers," over a long history — that's main character energy for an entire project 🌈⭐

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving resources 🌸

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and that's the page!! 🦋 source/version: the PLplot API, dated August, 2026 — mwah, drink water, go check your draw mode, periodt 💜🎀