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

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> else you miss for a 4.2 release? Multiple window support is a candidate that 
> most likely could be added rather easily.

Or use wxgnuplot

> 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.

Good point, can you patch them?

> 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?

Could you check on runtime "if (this_dll_available) then ..." ?

>> 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.

Please write your comments into SF. 
Those unreproducible should be closed.

>> #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.

Thus, to be disabled? Hans-Bernhard?

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