Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Peter J. <pet...@gm...>]

I experience the same on a virtualboxed Vista setup, with gnuplot
4.4.2 and 4.5 both.
The wxt terminal window appears, but without any content, and the
application doesn't respond anymore. I have to kill it every time, no
"it magically fixed itself after the fifth time" for me.

Interestingly, it works as expected on a (real) Windows XP.

The problem with the help files is a longstanding one, and AFAIK it's
not that easy to fix. There is a system component that was in XP but
is missing from Vista et al., that's why the help doesn't work. You
can install that component from Microsoft's site, after that it'll
work. (I can't recall its name now)


Péter Juhász

2011/1/17 Mojca Miklavec <moj...@gm...>:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm sorry. I take my word back.
>
> Gnulpot used to hang for a very very very long time each time when I
> tried it (until I lost all the hope and forced closing it). After the
> fifth try it now works without a problem. I cannot figure out what
> exactly could go wrong, but it does work now.
>
> I don't like the fact that I have to use
>    set encoding cp852
> (this could be either automatic or it could support UTF-8 in Windows
> Vista and 7) and help files are missing (that could easily be fixed, I
> assume), but my original complaint wasn't entirely true.
>
> Gnuplot also signals a "crash" to OS when closed with "that cross on
> the upper right corner" which should probably not happen, but well ...
>
> Mojca
>
>
> 2011/1/17 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I'm using Mac. I remember that I managed to compile gnuplot with wxt
>> terminal on Mac once, but it was hanging and one couldn't do anything
>> with it (function was drawn, but one could not click on the window).
>>
>> I have now tested gnuplot 4.2.2 for Windows (precompiled) on Windows 7
>> and it hangs almost in the same way as it does on mac (only that it
>> doesn't even draw anything). Using
>>    set term windows
>> and then continue with that old terminal works fine, but wxt seems to
>> be just as broken under windows as it is on mac. Does it work for
>> others and on what version of Windows?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Mojca
>>
>
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