Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 10/9/06 2:07 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrote:

> Joe Koski wrote:
>> on 10/8/06 2:54 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrote:
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>>> Hi Joe !
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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 try
>>> to build again. Hopefully it will work. Don't hesitate to report any is=
sue.
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>>> Thank you very much for your efforts.
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>>> Best regards,
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>>> Timoth=E9e
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>> Timoth=E9e,
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>> I applied the patch, borrowed fontconfig from X11 with an export
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and successfully built gnuplot-4.2.rc1 with a wxt termi=
nal.
>> (I'll send you a screen shot separately.)
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>> To test, I started gnuplot, set term wxt, and did a plot [-4:4] sin(x) t=
o
>> see what would happen.
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> The plot is rendered properly, that's a good point !
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>> 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 get=
 was
>> a twirling icon telling me to wait. This happens any time the cursor cro=
sses
>> the wxt window.
> Do you mean that the plot window is just like dead ? Is the cursor
> position updated in the status bar for example ?
> If it's the case, there is probably an issue with the GUI loop running
> in a separate thread.
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Timoth=E9e,

I realized after I sent the message I should have been more clear on this
point. Clicking inside the window does not get the focus, and the bar at th=
e
top is always grayed out as it is in the screen shot that I sent you. Your
question about the screen being "dead" is a good description. The cursor
position at the lower left is frozen as it shows in the screen shot, and
does not change when you move the cursor.

I have done a bit more testing. I can get octave-2.9.9 to open wxt windows,
and display plots, which is good, but it doesn't display legend information
that displays in both X11 and AquaTerm. Fixing that can wait until we have =
a
more workable arrangement.

I'm still waiting for an answer for my fontconfig question about
installation. Using the X11 fontconfig is not the best solution.

Let me know if if I need to try something else.

Joe



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>> When I quit gnuplot, the plot window also disappeared.
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>> During the build I saw
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>> (...)set.c: In function 'set_mouse':
>> set.c:2309: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'map_posit=
ion'
>> differ in signedness
>> set.c:2309: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'map_posit=
ion'
>> differ in signedness
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>> But I don't know if this is significant.
> It's not relevant to your problem.
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>> What should I be looking for?
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> Good question. I'll try to look at some wxMAC code in the next days, and
> I'll send you a patch as soon as I see what could happen.
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>> I'm available for further builds and testing. Let me know what to try ne=
xt.
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>> Joe
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> Thank you very much.
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> Best regards,
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> Timoth=E9e