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

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Petr Mikulik wrote:

>> 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 ..." ?

I take that's what Bastian meant by option 1) add more code...

>>> #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?

Disabling it might be overkill: sometimes it _does_ work, to some 
extent.   The real problem is that nobody seems to have any consistent 
explanation about when it'll work, and when it won't.  On Win9x, it 
apparently never worked, on NT-based windows, it sometimes does.
E.g. the "Print..." entry in the context menu of the graph window 
(available via the system menu if mousing is on) just got me a nicely 
working printout of the test page.  The PrtSc button (--> command 
"screendump") also worked.