Re: enhanced_recursion() and do_event(), can they be redesigned?

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

On 02/27/2014 12:46 AM, Jérôme Lodewyck wrote:
> Le mardi 25 février 2014 23:39:38 Daniel J Sebald a écrit :
>>> So could you point out a specific past or present problem in the Qt
>>> terminal that is due to the fact that no event loop is running in the
>>> inboard driver ?
>>
>> The answer is "no".  But the follow up to that is I really didn't search
>> for that.  I'm trying to solve the problem of the Qt terminal apparently
>> not working on Mac OSX or Windows the way it should in combination with
>> the fact that I don't have Mac OSX or Windows.  So I'm striving for an
>> event loop in hopes that makes the setup work better on all platforms. I
>> can't answer your question...that is, without looking into greater
>> detail of the Qt source code.
>
> Maybe I am wrong, but I think that adding an event loop will not make things
> work better. All the difficulties we had to make the Qt terminal work on all
> platforms are related to correctly setting the size of the plot window

I just sent a post identifying where the problem is with sizing, but it 
will take a little more to fix properly.


>  and
> correctly integrating the initialization of the QLocalSocket into the workflow
> of the main gnuplot program; which are problems that you will also face with
> an event loop.
> If you are motivated to pursue your idea, we will be able to balance whether
> things are less quirky or not with an event loop, but as Ethan said, things
> are already working almost correctly.

The event loop is on hold.  Let's clean up QProcess, QLocalSocket 
workflow first.

Dan