Re: gnuplot 4.4, mac os x, wxt terminal

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:03:31 Werner Smekal wrote:
> 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.

No one has ever reported full success in getting wxt running under OSX,
so far as I am aware.   The wxtp patch was supposed to get the train moving
in that direction, but if the train ever arrived at the station I must have
been snoozing. 
 
> 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).

If you have an updated patch plus a set of instructions for OSX users,
that would be fantastic!   

I have Macs available for testing, but the build environment is 
too different from machines I know well for me to help much when things
don't work.  In particular I never had any sort of handle on the
issue with giving focus to the plot window.

	Ethan







> 
> Regards,
> Werner
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