Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> Joe Koski wrote:
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>> on 10/8/06 2:54 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrot=
e:
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>>> 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 Etha=
n
>>> told you), wxMSW for Windows, wxMAC which you logically installed, an=
d
>>> 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 t=
ry
>>> to build again. Hopefully it will work. Don't hesitate to report any =
issue.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your efforts.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Timoth=E9e
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>> 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 ter=
minal.
>> (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 fo=
r the
>> plot window. When I placed the cursor in the plot window area, all I g=
et was
>> a twirling icon telling me to wait. This happens any time the cursor c=
rosses
>> the wxt window. When I quit gnuplot, the plot window also disappeared.
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>
> 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 t=
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> try later today or tomorrow that may overcome that particular problem.
>
> Timoth=E9e
>
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Just to confirm, I have just been told on IRC (#wxwidgets):

" if it isn't bundled or you haven't ran rez on it, things don't receive=20
focus"

Joe, the ball is in your hands...

Timoth=E9e