Re: [Gnuplot-py-users] keep plot open after program close?

[Forrest I. <for...@be...>]

Thanks for the help, Michael.

The problem is solved now. It turns out that just doing persist=0 does the
job.

Earlier, I said that persist=0 doesn't help, but now I tested it more
carefully--I was wrong. (I had a bunch of old Gnuplot windows open, and I
mistook those for new persistant windows being created.)

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Michael Haggerty <mh...@al...>wrote:

> On 12/29/2012 05:58 AM, Forrest Iandola wrote:
> > I'm trying to do the opposite -- I'm using hardcopy() to write the plots
> > to file, so /I'd like to have the gnuplot window close after Python
> > finishes executing/.
> >
> > I'm using the X11 terminal (I'm working on a Mac, and aquaterm isn't
> > cooperating).
> > Regardless of whether I do gp = Gnuplot.Gnuplot(*persist = 1*) or
> > *persist = 0*, the old Gnuplot windows stay open, and I often end up
> > with tons of open windows.
> >
> > I'd be /satisfied/ if we could just have the Gnuplot windows close after
> > Python finishes executing.
> > It'd be /even better/ if I could have Python close all figures from
> > previous runs, but keep the figure open from the most recent Python
> > execution. In other words, I'm looking for the Matlab `close all hidden`
> > command.
>
> A good first step might be for you to figure out how to get the gnuplot
> program itself (i.e., independent of Gnuplot.py) to do what you want.
> Maybe you have to start it with different command-line options?  Maybe
> you have to use a different terminal setting ("gnuplot> set term
> XXXXXX")?  Maybe you need to set extra options when setting the terminal
> ("gnuplot> set term XXXXXX FOO BAR")?
>
> If it's possible to get gnuplot to behave the way you want, then it is
> probably possible to get Gnuplot.py to do so.  Conversely, if gnuplot is
> not capable of doing what you want, Gnuplot.py has no chance.
>
> It *could be* that the way that Gnuplot.py does hardcopies is confusing
> gnuplot.  (It changes the terminal selection to one of the hardcopy
> terminals, re-plots the data, then reselects the standard terminal.)
> Perhaps the closing then re-opening of the standard terminal is breaking
> gnuplot's connection to the old terminal window.  Do the old terminals
> stay around even if you don't make any hardcopies?
>
> Michael
>
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