Re: What's left for a 4.2 release? [drivers]

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Lately I have been working a bit on the windows terminal. It now has
image, font selection and enhanced text support. Is there anything
else you miss for a 4.2 release? Multiple window support is a candidate 
that most likely could be added rather easily. Btw. I am not claiming to
be that champion ;)

>  - Old but not obsolete drivers
>    + Windows is the 800 pound gorilla here.  It has fallen behind 
>      the other interactive drivers in capability, and it does not
>      seem to have a champion on the development team to bring it up
>      to par.  Can we move to the wxWidgets driver instead, and 
>      retain the existing windows driver only for older systems that
>      don't support wxWidgets?

On my list of changes for win.trm are a changes to WIN_options()
to make it accept similar options as other terminals. The menu file
wgnuplot.mnu definitely could do with some update before 4.2 as well.

The current code as it is does not run on NT4 and possibly Win95 and 
Win32s. This is due to the new directory selection dialog introduced
by me. I can think of these options to handle that:
1) provide a separate version for these systems (probably not Win32s ;-)
2) add more code to make it run on all systems
3) make Win98/WIN2000 a requirement (NT4 plus IE update does work, too), 
Is there an agreement what to do?

Below some short comments on bugs specific to windows:

> windows:
> #1232950        -persist option does not work in Version 4.0.0 (Windows)
A bug that needs to be fixed for 4.2. I will look into it.

> #1413021        [Wgnuplot] pause 1;reread; blocks interaction
Cannot comment.

> #561418         (MS Windows) 100% CPU Usage during pause
I cannot reproduce this.

> #982293         can't print color in win32 gnuplot 4.0
> #233405         WGNUPL32.EXE crashes when printing directly (Win 95)
Printing via win.trm in general seems to be buggy. This feature
should probably be disabled for now. Bernhard recommends not to use
it anyway.

Bastian