Re: partly ignored TextSize in wgnuplot.ini

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

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> - Rotated text doesn't rotate to angles other than 90 degrees.
> Was general text rotation never added to the windows code?

Nope.

> - In 'fillstyle.dem' some of the box borders seem to be drawn
> 1 pixel off from the box interior fill. 

That could be caused by Windows' slightly strange idea of how
coordinates are interpreted.  If I find a fix quickly, I'll put it
in before the release, otherwise it says as-is.

> - (I will now display my great ignorance of the Windows world :-)
> I see that this windows build does not support enhanced text mode,
> yet I know that Petr has said it works under os2.  Is the os2
> environment so different  from windows that the same driver
> code cannot support both?

Any actual similarities between OS/2 and Windows had better be seen as
mere coincidence.  These OSes both were originally written in the same
place, right, but that doesn't mean their gnuplot drivers have any
particular relation to each other.  The Windows driver is a couple of
years older, and there are some corners where that *still* shows.

> Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > The only thing not available is "Save current settings to wgnuplot.ini" and
> > similar menu option which are located under the current window menu (of the
> > window manager), which obviously X11 does not allow.
> 
> For me that menu works fine so long as I first say "unset mouse".
> Well, some fonts work and some don't, but I suspect that is a wine problem.

To clarify this, there are *two * places this menu show up: as the
right-click (a.k.a. "context") menu of the graph window, and as a special
extension of the "system button" (in the top left corner of the GUI
window).  With mouse mode active, you can only access the latter --- but
most users won't find it there.  Yes, this is a violation of pretty much
every user interface tradition for MS Windows ever invented, but it works,
and it conserves screen real-estate by not using a menu-bar.

Most of the above is caused mainly by the fact that gnuplot hasn't had an
active maintainer of the MS Windows version for ages.  I reluctantly
stepped in a while ago to keep it working (and keep Petr off my back when
he wanted something *really* badly...), but that's about it.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.