[Gnuplot-bugs] small defects in 4.2

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Hi,

first of all thanks for this excellent plotting utility. It takes a bit of  
getting used to but it very powerful and feature rich. The new wx terminal  
works nicely as well.

So since this is new , a bit of feedback on some minor faults, tested on  
Gentoo.

1.
resizing the wx window the graph scales well but so does the text. Once  
the drag is finished it remains too large until a replot is done.

I guess this is just an oversight detail since I dont imagine setting the  
font size would be a large overhead for this to be done on the fly as is  
done with the plot itself.

2.
Dragging the window by any size handle or corner does resize the graph but  
it remains at the same aspect ratio. Again hitting the replot button (or  
reloading the .gnu) will resize to fit the new window fully.

If this is to minimise on the fly redrawing it should probably at least  
replot once the drag event terminates.

3. colours do not come out the same in outputting to png , for example.  
It's rather confusing seeing different output stored as an image and  
annoying in transmitting to others since I cant say "look at the green  
line" because it's probably blue in the other output format.

4. I had a lot of time wasted trying to get y2 scale markings. I found the  
label readily enough but could not understand why I was not getting the  
tics and numerical markings. I now realise it required that I explicitly  
set y2tics . What confused me is that this is not the case with y1 they  
just come up automatically.

It would seem more logical and consistant if y2tics behaved in the same  
way as the main y-axis, ie as soon as there is a y2scale defined the  
default tics and numerical label come up as well.

This is obviously not new on 4.2 , it seems it was always this way.


Sorry for putting several issues in one thread but they are minor and you  
are probably aware of most of them anyway.


Apart from that I can report that Version 4.2 patchlevel 0 works without  
any major flaws in the use I have put it to.

Tested on Gentoo linux ~x86 profile compiled with  
i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.0-alpha20070307 on a 2.6.20 patched kernel.

Many thanks to all concerned for an excellent piece of software.
:)