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.
>
> 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. When I quit gnuplot, the plot window also disappeared.

Joe,

Can you tell me if you "bundled" gnuplot ? On Mac, it seems to be=20
important for GUI applications that are started from the command line.=20
If you didn't, can you try to do that ? Anyway, I'll give you a patch to=20
try later today or tomorrow that may overcome that particular problem.

Timoth=E9e