Re: x11.trm terminal options

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

[...]
> 2)  If you think the above problem should be modified,
> do you feel that
>
> a) graphics windows should not appear until something
>  is actually plotted to them

Yes.  A gnuplot X11 graph window serves no purpose whatsoever until a
graph is plotted into it, so there's no point displaying it until that
point in time.

> With regard to 2, note that if one types "set output 'name'"
> followed by no plot commands, but then "set output", the
> file 'name' will be created.  Is there an analogy here between
> a file and a window?

Not really.  Arguably, that behaviour of 'set output' is wrong itself.

> 3)  Looking at the X11_options() in x11.trm it is very similar
> to other parsing/interpretting schemes, however it doesn't have
> the many checks for repeated entry, valid entry, etc.  Some
> commands are sent to gplt_x11 even before the end of parsing.

That's a bug, then.  But AFAICS, the only command sent to gplt_x11.c
before parsing of the options is finished is an update of the window
number.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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