Re: interactive game demo for gnuplot

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 08/25/2013 04:33 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 08/25/2013 04:15 PM, Juhász Péter wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 15:44 -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

[snip]

>>>     Summarizing, it's as though the Enter key must be typed twice to have
>>> the same effect as a single Enter key being pressed.
>>>
>>
>> I think this is because the new gnuplot executable is incompatible with
>> the old gnuplot_x11 driver, you have to re-install the latter as well.
>
> That part of gnuplot doesn't have anything to do with gnuplot_x11 (same
> odd behavior), but good point.
>
> As for the demo, updating gnuplot_x11 via the install makes things
> worse.  xixit.plt doesn't create any type of plot (gnuplot_x11 doesn't
> appear).  But I'm not sure this is because there are a lot of tabs in
> the xixit.plt code that makes it difficult to cut and paste into the
> command line having tab-completion on.
>
> Huh, after running some demos, gnuplot now behaves like normal at the
> shell command line...but it still has the super fast redrawing.

I just rebuilt with the Qt terminal installed.  That behaves very well 
(nice).  There is no shell command line issue in that case.  It would 
seem either this has something to do with installing the x11 terminal as 
the active terminal even though a plot hasn't been performed yet at 
start, or it is some bad pointer into memory that this corrupting a hunk 
of code.

Dan