Re: Ggnuplot-beta@lists.sourceforge.netnuplot crashing for "hidden3d undefined" ?

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Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007 13:18, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

>> I did, for the reason assert() is pretty much always used: to ensure 
>> that worse, much harder to find problems don't appear further down the 
>> processing pipeline --- you did mention segfaults and strange 
>> wrap-around artifacts earlier...

> For debugging - yes.
> It would be more user friendly not to exit the program, however.
> Instead it should be possible to disable the mouse interaction 
> until the next replot, and bail to the command line with an error
> message int_error().  
> 
> Do you see any problems if the assert() statements were replaced by
>    if (whatever) {
> 	[do something to disable mousing];
> 	int_error(NO_CARET, "error message");
>    }

As long as it stays an int_error() (or rather graph_error(), as this 
happens in the middle of drawing) --- no problems.   An int_warning() 
would be critically insufficient, tough.