Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 17.01.2011 18:55, Peter Juhasz wrote:

> 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.

My experience on a real Windows box was somewhat similar, but ultimately 
different.  The first plot from the first wxt version of gnuplot I ever 
ran took _ages_.  Yes, it did feel like eternity, but ulimately it got 
there.  Ever since, it just works.

So apparently there's something the wxt framework needs to do once to 
work properly.

Maybe you guys just need to be a bit more patient before killing it.

> 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)

If only it were that simple.  The real problem is that even after you 
have winhelp32 installed, it'll _still_ refuse to display our help 
pages, because they have arrived on the system without having been 
"blessed" by an official MSI installer.  So you have to explicitly 
remove a "this is a nasty file from somewhere in the big, nasty 
Internet, so it can't be allowed to work" flag from the file in Explorer.