gnuplot 4.4, mac os x, wxt terminal

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi,

after some messing around I finally made the wxt(p) driver work. What I
did was:

* Download the GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg package from
http://r.research.att.com/ and install it
* Download the wxWidgets 2.8.11-rc2 source and compile a static build

Compiling gnuplot 4.4/4.5 works fine, pngcairo/pdfcairo work, but the
wxt terminal hangs. Looking at the code this is because wxt uses a
second thread which calls wxApp::OnRun which shouldn't be done, and
obviously doesn't work in Mac OS X.

I patched gnuplot 4.4 from cvs with the patch adding another terminal
wxtp which works similar to gnuplot_x11. The patch didn't apply cleanly,
but this could be sorted out. It compiles and runs, but window doesn't
get focus - known problem, since gnuplot is not an app, but with a
little "hack" using CPSEnableForegroundOperation() this can also be
solved and I got a working (sort of) wxtp terminal outside of an app bundle.

I just want to known what the status of wxt is now. Is wxtp supposed to
be applied to cvs? The patch is over a year old.

Anyway, just want to know where this is heading, maybe I can help a
little (having some experience being the maintainer of the wxWidgets
driver of PLplot).

Regards,
Werner

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