Re: [Gnuplot-info] Auto-Closing gnuplot on closing the gnuplot window

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 14 July 2018 22:41:09 Gunter Königsmann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> wxMaxima allows to automatically embed gnuplot plots into a maths
> worksheet: The plot is generated with the png (or pngcairo) terminal and
> the bitmap is embedded. Tomorrow's nightly build also on right-clicking
> a plot allows to start a separate gnuplot process - which popups a
> window in which the user can interactively turn a 3d plot, zoom in and
> out or measure coordinates with the cursor. There is a problem left, though:
> 
> - If I start gnuplot as "gnuplot -p /tmp/maxoutXXX.gnuplot" gnuplot
> closes when the user closes gnuplot's plot window. But the displayed
> graphics is is not interactive (for example a 3d image cannot be turned
> using the mouse)
>  - and if /tmp/maxoutXXX.gnuplot ends with a "pause -1" the image can be
> turned with the mouse. But in this case gnuplot doesn't close when the
> user dismisses the interactive gnuplot window, which makes gnuplot act
> like a big memory leak.
> 
> In the internet I find many related questions like
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot/bE0RHH_l7aI

That's from 10 years ago, but the answer is correct.
Instead of "pause -1" you want some variant of "pause mouse",
possibly "pause mouse close"
.
See the documentation for the pause command or "help pause".

	Ethan

> ...but until now I didn't find a real solution to my question (most of
> the questions were from the gnuplot 4.0 times, though) so I'm asking here.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> and kind regards,
> 
>     Gunter.