Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Joe Koski wrote:
> on 10/8/06 2:54 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrote=
:
>
>  =20
>> Hi Joe !
>>
>> I'm sorry you did not succeed, but those errors are normal: wxWidgets
>> comes in different flavours depending on the platform: wxGTK (as Ethan
>> told you), wxMSW for Windows, wxMAC which you logically installed, and
>> others. There are a couple of places where it is necessary to choose
>> between two possible behaviours (two threads or one) in the terminal
>> code. Since I only have access to Linux (wxGTK) and Windows (wxMSW), I
>> have chosen to enable the compilation for those two only.
>>
>> However, attached is a patch that enables the compilation for wxMAC. I
>> will be very glad to see you try it. Apply it in src/wxterminal and tr=
y
>> to build again. Hopefully it will work. Don't hesitate to report any i=
ssue.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your efforts.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Timoth=E9e
>>    =20
>
> Timoth=E9e,
>
> I applied the patch, borrowed fontconfig from X11 with an export
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and successfully built gnuplot-4.2.rc1 with a wxt term=
inal.
> (I'll send you a screen shot separately.)
>
> To test, I started gnuplot, set term wxt, and did a plot [-4:4] sin(x) =
to
> see what would happen.
>  =20

The plot is rendered properly, that's a good point !

> I got the plot, but I could not get "focus" or whatever you call it for=
 the
> plot window. When I placed the cursor in the plot window area, all I ge=
t was
> a twirling icon telling me to wait. This happens any time the cursor cr=
osses
> the wxt window.
Do you mean that the plot window is just like dead ? Is the cursor=20
position updated in the status bar for example ?
If it's the case, there is probably an issue with the GUI loop running=20
in a separate thread.


> When I quit gnuplot, the plot window also disappeared.
>
> During the build I saw
>
> (...)set.c: In function 'set_mouse':
> set.c:2309: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'map_posi=
tion'
> differ in signedness
> set.c:2309: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'map_posi=
tion'
> differ in signedness
>
> But I don't know if this is significant.
It's not relevant to your problem.

> What should I be looking for?
>  =20
Good question. I'll try to look at some wxMAC code in the next days, and=20
I'll send you a patch as soon as I see what could happen.


> I'm available for further builds and testing. Let me know what to try n=
ext.
>
> Joe
>  =20
Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e