Re: Aw: Re: README-Windows.txt

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: bmaerkisch
> Cc: gnuplot-beta
> Date: 2019/2/22, Fri 03:08
> Subject: Re: Aw: Re: README-Windows.txt
> 

> Dear Bastian
> 
>  
>>  I am a bit confused about your mail as it - in my view - adresses many
>>  different somewh t independent topics. I will try to provide information
>>  on all of them below.
>> 
>> 
>>  * Status of the qt terminal on Windows
>> 
>>  qt is quite usable on Windows. It is definitively not "broken". 
> It 
>>  does
>>  have some quirks, though.  One of them is related to fontconfig. For 
>>  whatever reason, the experience with fontconfig on Windows with gnuplot
>>  has its difficulties: it reinitializes its cache very often, leading to
>>  a simingly indefinitely delayed opening of the window (wxt used with 
>>  fontconfig) or an error message ("slow font initialisation" - 
> qt). 
>>  This 
>>  is unsatisfactory and cannot be the "default" behaviour. So far I 
> 
>>  could
>>  not identify a remidy. We are certainly open to patches! Another issue
>>  is Bug #1081: Qt: resizing makes plot "tremble/​shake" which 
> still 
>>  persists on Windows at least. Also we still have issues with detecting
>>  the loss of communication with the outboard driver (or vice versa) in
>>  some cases.
>> 
>>  If there are more issues with "qt" (which warrant to call it 
>>  "broken)
>>  please let us know, so we can fix these issues.


This seem to be race condition.
I execute all.dem
GNUPLOT_LIB=../../demo GNUTERM=qt ./gnuplot all.dem < ../../../y.dat

y.dat is a file that contains many [CR].


In this case, plot is broken.
However we execute all.dem manually, ugly plot does not happen.


Sorry for noise.

Tatsuro