Re: towards 4.4

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello

--- Petr Mikulik  wrote:
tribution for Windows:
> - Tatsuro MATSUOKA can compile Windows binary with all new features, such as 
>   wxterminal, pdfcairo, lua, etc. These are missing in binary packages 
>   provided by me.  I propose to distribute the package by TM obtained by 
>   joining his current
> 	gp44rc1-winbin.zip
> 	gp44rc1-winbin-wxt-diff.zip

It is glad for me if my binaries will uploaded in the gnuplot download page. 
 
> - Further, there will be x11 package for /usr-like system in Cygwin.
>   Is there any difference between the package provided by me and TM?
>   Note: this binary does not contain wxt, only x11.

Perhaps you build your binary of cygwin-1.5 if you build your binary on cygwin-1.7 you can easily add
lua/tikz, pdfcairo, and pngcairo.  On Dec 23 2009, the cygwin-1.7 has been a current release. If you
install dependencies of lua/tikz, pdfcairo, and pngcairo by cygwin setup.exe, you can easily add the
three terminals.

The cygwin-1.7 does not have the wxWidgets toolkits at present.  If 



 
> Other Windows issues:
> - Shall be the default terminal wx instead of windows? I would vote for 
>   this change.
> 
> - The only issue which is missing in wx terminal is the "Print" button.
>   How many Windows people use it for printing graphs instead of "set term"
>   mechanism? Is it possible to add the print dialog easily?

I do not know how much effort will be required to add the print dialog.
The wxt terminal is multi-platform terminal.  The addition the print dialog is better to be realized
for all platforms if it is possible.

The remaining issue I know is 'pause mouse' problem on windows.
http://old.nabble.com/pause-mouse-key-on-Windows-td5131156.html#a5131156
http://old.nabble.com/pause-mouse-does-not-work-on-windows-term-on-gnuplot.exe-(on-wgnuplot,-pause-mouse-works-correct)-td26739744.html#a26772986

I have tried to fix the problem but I have not yet complete it because it is difficult to treat pause
mouse issue on both windows terminal and wxt terminal to my ability.

Regards

Tatsuro   

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