Re: problem with "set x11 {size WW,HH} {position XX,YY}"

[Ben A. <bpa...@ma...>]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:15 AM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> Well, if someone can figure out which bit of code in gplt_x11.c is
> getting called erroneously in your original trials, I'd be happy to
> help design a fix for it.  But since I can't reproduce the problem  
> here,
> I am entirely dependent on someone else to pin down the precise source
> of the error.


I asked for some help on Octave's mail list. The relevant portion of a  
response is below

On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> I started the debugger and did 'gnuplot> load "simple_example.gp"'  
> once again and I cannot see the problem. The reason now might be  
> that somewhere we have some kind of *timing* problem, ie. if the  
> commands are typed in per hand then this is 'slow' enough that the  
> window is not resized - the same happens if I run the program with  
> the debugger. The debugger needs some time for each line and that's  
> already enough so that the resizing problem doesn't appear. This  
> also means that we don't get any further with debugging as we cannot  
> see the problem if we use gdb. I'm currently out of ideas how we can  
> track for this problem...

So the window grows when gnuplot form the command line and my example  
is loaded, but does not when run in the debugger.

I checked Thomas' hypothesis by placing a "pause(0.1)" after each  
plot, and the window did not grow.

The modified script is attached.

Ben