Re: [Plplot-general] Plotting from multithreaded environment

[Sergei N. <vo...@ra...>]

> I do not know anything about the GTK multithreading capabilities, so what I would like to know is, where are the threads introduced, is that in g_timeout()? 
> But I would think that it initialises a single extra thread. Plplot itself is not threadsafe, that is, you should not use the functions from different threads 
> at the same time, but I would imagine that global variables (as maintained by the Plplot library) are accessible in any thread. Hence, there should be no problem.

The call simply creates a new thread that executes a specified function every N seconds. In my case it is 15. All other variables and structures declared globally 
in my code are accessable from inside. There seem to be nothing unusual about it.

> What happens if you use the PSC device? That produces a file on disk.

It seems I did sometging wrong... But it produced a file with nothing in it.

[serge@yaro c]$ ./ext
Enter graphics output file name: oo

*** PLPLOT ERROR, ABORTING OPERATION ***
plvpor: Invalid limits, aborting operation

*** PLPLOT ERROR, ABORTING OPERATION ***
plwind: Please set up viewport first, aborting operation

*** PLPLOT ERROR, ABORTING OPERATION ***
plbox: Please set up window first, aborting operation