Re: Reworked qt terminal is much faster – and fails to work on Mac

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> The workaround for a non-functional call to QLocalSocket.waitForBytesWritten
> in qt_flushOutBuffer seems to have a timing problem  - on Windows at least.
>
> The sequence of flush and waitForBytesWritten(-1) dead locks and stalls
> gnuplot. This is easy to trigger when e.g. rotating 3d graphs rapidly with
> the mouse.
>
> Just using waitForBytesWritten(-1) directly seems to work just fine, though.
> This is to be also indicated by a comment ("update: seems to work with Qt
> 4.5.") there. The patch attached is conditional on Qt >= 4.5. Could somebody
> please test if that also works  on Linux/Mac?

No, it doesn't. I get
    QAbstractSocket::waitForBytesWritten() is not allowed in UnconnectedState
printed to the terminal and then I'm unable to do any interaction with
the mouse at all. Some plots from demos are not even displayed.

Mojca