Re: [Gnuplot-info] Trying out other terminals

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

Not sure if I have understood correctly, but would one solution be to 
write a separate program that received your data and piped an 
appropriately formatted set of gnuplot commands to a terminal of your 
choice; this intermediate program could format the gnuplot commands as 
required via, say a simple GUI? I am guessing this will be much easier 
than modifying the code for an existing terminal.

FWIW: I prefer the wxt terminal since, among other things, it keeps the 
aspect ratio of the graph the same when you resize the terminal window.

P.


On 23/10/2023 02:36, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:
> Hiya!
>
> I've been working with gnuplot on a testbench project for a friend 
> starting around 2020, and I have it working quite well, it draws the 
> charts we need. I've been using the qt terminal for this work on macOS 
> because it lets us pan and zoom interactively to some degree.
>
> It doesn't, however allow me to multiple charts with a common x axis, 
> and the interaction precision leaves much to be desired.
>
> I started looking around for another perhaps better terminal, and 
> found aquaterm. I'm sure I tried this terminal first back in 2020, but 
> ran into a couple issues right away. One thing it does is decide that 
> a smaller window is desired, when I set the size to 2560 x 1440.
>
> Is there a trick to it?
>
> If I were going to dive into the source of qt, I'd be faced with the 
> QT library and (I expect) C++ code. Aquaterm looks like a native 
> Objective-C app; the thing aquaterm doesn't do that qt term does is 
> buffer the commands to redraw the chart when you pan and zoom.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Mike
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