AquaTerm (Mac OS X graphics terminal)

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:48, Daniel Holguin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I use 'set term x11' I can actually see the plots. However, if I let 'set term aqua' I don't see any graphics.
>
> Do you know what can I check? Is there any advantage on using aquaterm vs x11?
>
> I have installed gnuplot and aquaterm both using macports.

Do you have a system AquaTerm installed somewhere?

The weird thing is that I can get it running without a problem when I
install gnuplot/aquaterm with macports (I'm also on Snow Leopard), but
I cannot get the latest version running when I compile both manually
(it runs, but when I try to plot anything it just freezes forever).
I'm (slowly) trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm not
exactly sure how to check that either.

The major advantage is that AquaTerm runs natively and doesn't require
X11 (which is less of an issue now than it was back on Tiger). X11 has
more features, but I still prefer AquaTerm somehow. One extra feature
is that you can export graphics to PDF with a simple "save as".

Mojca

I uninstalled macports and reinstalled all including gnuplot again to get it working.
With so many updates and changes my previous installation didn't seem to be smooth.
However, with the fresh installation using macports, everything was pretty straight. No problems or manual build at all during the installation.

I have aquaterm port installed. Apart from that I don't know what else to do.

Daniel-Holguins-MacBook-Pro:octave cicloide$ port installed aquaterm
The following ports are currently installed:
  aquaterm @1.0.1_5 (active)

Thanks.

Daniel

On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:48, Daniel Holguin wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> When I use 'set term x11' I can actually see the plots. However, if I let 'set term aqua' I don't see any graphics.
>> 
>> Do you know what can I check? Is there any advantage on using aquaterm vs x11?
>> 
>> I have installed gnuplot and aquaterm both using macports.
> 
> Do you have a system AquaTerm installed somewhere?
> 
> The weird thing is that I can get it running without a problem when I
> install gnuplot/aquaterm with macports (I'm also on Snow Leopard), but
> I cannot get the latest version running when I compile both manually
> (it runs, but when I try to plot anything it just freezes forever).
> I'm (slowly) trying to figure out what is going on, but I'm not
> exactly sure how to check that either.
> 
> The major advantage is that AquaTerm runs natively and doesn't require
> X11 (which is less of an issue now than it was back on Tiger). X11 has
> more features, but I still prefer AquaTerm somehow. One extra feature
> is that you can export graphics to PDF with a simple "save as".
> 
> Mojca

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 09:55, Daniel Holguin wrote:
> I uninstalled macports and reinstalled all including gnuplot again to get it working.
> With so many updates and changes my previous installation didn't seem to be smooth.
> However, with the fresh installation using macports, everything was pretty straight. No problems or manual build at all during the installation.
>
> I have aquaterm port installed. Apart from that I don't know what else to do.

The following works for me:
    open /opt/local/var/macports/software/aquaterm/1.0.1_5/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app
    /opt/local/bin/gnuplot
    > plot sin(x)

The problem is that I have another copy of AquaTerm.app somewhere and
unless I open the one that came with macports first, it will open the
other one and fail to work.

(The issue needs to be solved, but I first need to figure out how all
this aquaterm chain works.)

Mojca

That worked great for me with only one difference: with X11 I can double click, or use the keyboard, to rotate the figure while with aquaterm I can't. The graphics look better in Aquaterm.


On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> The following works for me:
>    open /opt/local/var/macports/software/aquaterm/1.0.1_5/Applications/MacPorts/AquaTerm.app
>    /opt/local/bin/gnuplot
>> plot sin(x)