Re: wgnuplot

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> We can replace the Win32 code with wx code.

What about speed? For 2D maps, the WX terminal is still slower on X11 then 
the x11 terminal.

> We already support wxWidgets on MSWin, so far as I know.

Not very well - I cannot compile it. Instructions are missing. I've 
described problems with compilation in mail "Subject: wxt by MingW" on 4 Sep 
2008.

> It looks like the wx version is attempting to drive a wx gui from a
> console app.  I may have misunderstood this design. As a stand alone
> solution, this may work, but a more natural approach may be to have a
> gui wx app driving the gnuplot library code.  This allows us to expose
> gnuplot as a library of plotting routines.  Our simulation environment
> can then drive gnuplot, as we do wtih Vtk.

Gnuplot is not library with an API; instead, you use the gnuplot commands 
and pass them through a pipe - for this, a console app is needed.

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