Re: Any chance to fix gnuplot on mac?

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

On Saturday, 23 July 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> So basically dummy is the only terminal on Mac that works reliably.

That is simply not true.  x11 works fine.  
Some [many?] Mac users are prejudiced against x11, but there's not much
we can do about that.
 
> Can someone PLEASE fix at least AquaTerm. if nobody cares about qt and wxt?

Is AquaTerm 1.<latest> now at a state where it supports mousing?
If not, then I think it's a waste of time compared to sorting out
wxt or canvas.

Have you tried this recently submitted patch?
  #3358726 wxt (wxWidgets) Mac support patch
  "(for both 4.4 stable & 4.5 CVS) let's wxt terminal work fine on Mac"
  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=302055&aid=3358726&group_id=2055
If somebody confirms that it works, I'd be happy to apply it to CVS immediately.
I already checked that it doesn't harm wxt support on linux.

In any event, I'd be happy to take patch[es] that come with a note
"apply this and aquaterm will work out of the box on OSX 10.whatever".
But I'm not a Mac user, so I am dependent on contributions from
elsewhere.

The one pathway that I think I could manage on my own, if there is sufficient
interest, is to document use of gnuplot's canvas and/or svg terminals 
with safari as an interactive viewer.  Unless things have changed on the
aquaterm side, that actually gets you more supported features anyhow.

	Ethan