Re: x11.trm terminal options

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:46 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Point 1 is simply a matter of breaking
> out of a loop when a number change code 'N' is seen
> by Gnuplot.  It is then possible to resize all windows
> after a "set term x11".

OK. That sounds like a pure bug-fix.  Did you check the
rest of that loop to see if all the other options have proper
exit code also?

> 2c below I've ruled out as an alternative.  It is confusing
> when the windows behave that way.  This is accomplished
> by doing an X11_init() in the X11_options() of x11.trm.

Are you saying this is only needed for (c)?  Or are you
proposing to do this for (a) also?

> [But really, the proper thing to do would be to check the
> sanity of the "plot->window" variable before using it.

Or maybe to set this to point at a dummy structure when
a window is destroyed, instead of setting it to NULL.

> The alternatives 2a and 2b are achieved by a simple
> mod of:

(b) is to pop up a blank window as soon as the terminal
type is set, right?   I do not like that idea at all.

I'd like to have a look at the proposed code changes
before offering a final opinion.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Department of Biochemistry & Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle