Re: status of xgfe (x11 front end for GnuPlot)

[Glenn B. <gbb...@ve...>]

On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 17:59, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > I'm interested in reviving 'xgfe'.
> >
> > The link on http://www.gnuplot.info/links.html to
> > http://home.flash.net/~dmishee/xgfe/xgfe.html is stale, but I've been
> > able to find a copy of version 2.1 somewhere, and, after a few changes,
> > have it working on a "modern" system.
>
> There seems to be a recent version (last updated 2 weeks ago) on
> http://www.freshports.org/math/xgfe
>

This is the same as the 1998 edition I'm working from.  Thanks.

> > And, second, is 'xgfe' the best starting point for my little project?
>
> I was hoping someone would make the button/widget bar on the new wxt
> terminal user-extensible.  Perhaps via a configuration file that one each
> line lists an icon URL and a corresponding gnuplot command line.  Or
> perhaps via an extension to the "bind" command that creates a button in
> addition to a hot key:
>   bind button "set style fill transparent solid 0.5" icon
> "~/icon/transp.png"

I'll see what I can do.  I'm much more familar with Qt than wxGTK.