Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

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

On 10/27/2014 01:53 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Friday, 24 October, 2014 22:17:19 sfeam wrote:
>> On Saturday, 25 October 2014 12:01:57 AM Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2014 05:04 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 24 October, 2014 15:17:01 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>>>> Also the WXT terminal has a fixed aspect ratio where Qt terminal does not.
>>>>
>>>> Again not true here.   The copy/paste is just a bitmap of whatever the
>>>> current display shows.  You can change the aspect ratio to anything
>>>> you like either with "set term wxt size XX,YY"  or by resizing the open
>>>> window with the mouse.
>>>
>>> When resizing the window, I'm seeing the plot change size but using the
>>> maximum size that fits within whatever is the minimum axis that
>>> maintains aspect ratio.  The rest of the screen is then grey.  I've
>>> attached a small screenshot.
>>
>> Ah, I understand.
>> See Feature Request #314
>>
>> The new aspect ratio isn't applied until the next replot.
>> The qt terminal has a tool widget to toggle whether you
>> want this to happen automatically.  The wxt should have one also.
>
> I've added to cvs for 5.0 and 5.1 a toggle button in the wxt tools widget.
>
> The very first time you use it, the state of the toggle button may not be
> reported correctly because the corresponding state variable doesn't exist
> in your previous saved-state file.  But once you've exited the program
> that first time, causing the saved-state to be updated, everything should work
> correcly in subsequent sessions.

Pressing the tools wrench seems to automatically change the setting of 
this toggle box without actually pressing it.  (The action does seem to 
match the setting though.)  I've exited gnuplot and tried again.  Same 
thing.

Dan

Q: Is there some way to test the whole of gnuplot, including terminals, 
without doing a system install?