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Re: Build problem

[<tim...@en...>]

Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> On Monday 10 July 2006 22:53 Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
>  =20
>> Juergen Wieferink wrote:
>>    =20
>>> Just curious: Will there be a smoother integration of the mousing
>>> features into the GUI?
>>>      =20
>> Well, if you have a precise idea, I'm all ears. For 4.2 it will
>> definitely stay like that, i.e. the same mouse behaviour as other
>> terminals plus the few icons in the toolbar. But if we can make it
>> better, we should try !
>>    =20
>
> Hmm....  The problem I have is that I cannot remember all the keys.
> If the message, which is displayed with 'h' would also show up
> directly in the help dialog, I would already be helped.=20
Agreed. It needs too much work for 4.2, because this help message is=20
entangled with the 'bind' system, but it seems worthwile.
> I feel quite uncomfortable with the output to the terminal while mousin=
g
> because I generally keep terminal windows at 80x25.
I don't understand what you mean here.
> And I'd like the 'verbose' message to show up also in the status bar...
>  =20
Again, it  needs too much work for 4.2, but makes sense.
I will write that in my to-do list !

Best regards,

Timoth=C3=A9e

Re: Build problem

[<tim...@en...>]

Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> On Sunday 09 July 2006 22:11 Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
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>> Juergen Wieferink wrote:
>>    =20
>>> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
>>> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>>> Error reading Pango modules file
>>>
>>> (<unknown>:17660): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded
>>> modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably mean=
s
>>> there was an error in the creation of:
>>>   '/usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules'
>>> You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.
>>>      =20
>
>  =20
>> Have you tried to run 'pango-querymodules' ? It may tell you why it di=
d
>> not find the so-called modules.
>> Attached is my file to let you know what you are expecting.
>>    =20
>
> Well, I tried somehow...  I typed "pango-q" and hit tab twice and
> was getting nothing because it was not yet in the hash, probably.  I
> thought that this was because missing priveleges and got root.  And
> also root did not know pango-querymodules.  Because /usr/local/bin
> is not in the path of root.  Maybe this is the reason
> /usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules was empty.
>
> Finally, I piped the output of pango-querymodules into
> /usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules and there you are, it works!
> Really cool look and feel, congrats!!!  And thanks for your efforts
> to get it to work on machines like mine. ;-)
>  =20
You're welcome. I am glad you've succeeded, and your reports really made=20
me fix problems that may have annoyed others. And the howto you wrote is=20
just a good idea (and I am happy it is not longer ;-) ). Thank you !
> Just curious: Will there be a smoother integration of the mousing
> features into the GUI?
>  =20
Well, if you have a precise idea, I'm all ears. For 4.2 it will=20
definitely stay like that, i.e. the same mouse behaviour as other=20
terminals plus the few icons in the toolbar. But if we can make it=20
better, we should try !

Best regards,

Timoth=C3=A9e

Re: Build problem

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 10 July 2006 01:53 pm, Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
> > Just curious: Will there be a smoother integration of the mousing
> > features into the GUI?
>
> Well, if you have a precise idea, I'm all ears. For 4.2 it will
> definitely stay like that, i.e. the same mouse behaviour as other
> terminals plus the few icons in the toolbar. But if we can make it
> better, we should try !

Wxt still needs a mechanism to disable the trapping of "q" and
"space" as special cases, right?  I've been holding off on adding
an interactive label-placement demo because it fails on wxt.
But I'll go ahead and add it in the hope that it makes clear why
such a feature is needed.

mouselabels.dem  (now in cvs)

Give it a try under x11, and then see how unusable it is under wxt
because of the 'q' and '<space>' trapping.


=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA

Re: Build problem

[<tim...@en...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Wxt still needs a mechanism to disable the trapping of "q" and
> "space" as special cases, right?  I've been holding off on adding
> an interactive label-placement demo because it fails on wxt.
> But I'll go ahead and add it in the hope that it makes clear why
> such a feature is needed.
>
> mouselabels.dem  (now in cvs)
>
> Give it a try under x11, and then see how unusable it is under wxt
> because of the 'q' and '<space>' trapping.
>  =20
Hmm. You must have missed a part of the changelog a month ago :

2006-06-17  Timothee Lecomte  <tim...@en...>

    (...)
    (wxtPanel::OnKeyEvent):
    (wxt_init):
    (wxtConfigDialog):
    New variable wxt_ctrl to handle 'q' and <space>.
    (...)

    * term/wxt.trm (wxt_options): New terminal option '{no}ctrl'.
    (TERM_HELP): Updated.

I have just tried and it.... is great ! How powerful these demos are !
A little remark : when hitting ESC to quit the demo, the command prompt=20
'gnuplot>' does not come back, I have to hit ctrl-c (both wxt and x11).

Best regards,

Timoth=C3=A9e

Re: Build problem

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 10 July 2006 03:09 pm, Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
> Hmm. You must have missed a part of the changelog a month ago :

So sorry.  You're right, I completely missed that.
Great, so the demo works on both x11 and wxt.
And one more item can be crossed off my TODO list for 4.2

> ! A little remark : when hitting ESC to quit the demo, the command
> prompt 'gnuplot>' does not come back, I have to hit ctrl-c (both wxt
> and x11).

Hmm. You're right about the prompt.=20
But I don't have to hit ctrl-c;   a simple <cr> is sufficient.
This is an old, old problem when mixing terminal input and
mouse-channel input.  I have never found a general solution,
although it may be possible to provide an explicit reset command
of some sort that could be called from a script like this one
when it is known in advance that the problem will be triggered.



=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA