Re: wxgnuplot and the screen terminal

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

On Friday 14 April 2006 06:45 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> Some ideas about "screen" terminals, for discussion:
> 
> Users, scripts and driving programs have to take care where they are,
> and use "set term x11" or "set term windows" accordingly.

If it is  supposed to be a portable script, it should not
assume anything about the local default terminal.
That is what the environmental variable GNUTERM is for.
I do take your point about about multiple numbered plot
widows, though.

So yes, perhaps "set term screen <num>",  where
"screen" is taken from GNUTERM, and <num> is ignored for
terminals that don't support multiple windows.

> - There is no advantage for users to have both wxt and x11,
> wxt and win in one gnuplot executable.

You can add aquaterm to that list.

That may eventually be true, but we are not quite there yet.
I'm a great fan of the new wxt terminal, and have been using
it by default recently.  But there are still some things that the
x11 term can do that are not yet working in wxt, and I believe
the same is true for the windows terminals (not sure, though,
since I haven't tested a version with Bastian Maerkisch's new
patches). 

 
> - Executable called "wxgnuplot" would use wxterminal by default, all others
>    the OS native (even when wx being compiled in).
> 
> - When wx terminal is built-in, then x11 or win terminals are not compiled
>    in, but their "set term ..." are redirected to wxt. Then, using "set term
>    x11", "set term win", "set term wxt" does always the same thing whereever
>    you run the given script.
> 
> - There can be a unique dummy screen terminal name e.g. "set term screen"
>    that "hides" these "set term some_OS_screen_terminal".
> 
> - It is only the OS/2 gnuplot which can have both x11 and pm in
>    simultaneously. However, wxt is not working there (or at least untested).
> 
> Or some functionality like that. I hope you caught the point.
> Please think about it.
> 
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Ethan A Merritt
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