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.
> 
> 
I found strage plot on jitter.dem on qt terminal gnuplot on windows.
I will file it as a bug.

Tatsuro