Re: maximing/resizing multiple x11: change of palette

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

This may be a stupid question, but is there not  a much more straightforward
way of handling this?

The basic layout of gnuplot_x11 is that commands are read from the input
stream and either
	(a) executed immediately (e.g. "close window #5")
or	(b) stored in a list to be executed every time the current plot is redrawn.

Right now setting the palette is treated as category (a). That is, the routine
scan_palette_from_buf() is executed immediately but the information is not
stored with the plot.

Can't you fix this problem by moving the operation into category (b) instead?
Just store the stream of palette information as part of the plot, and then 
execute scan_palette_from_buf() each time the plot is redrawn.

I don't know what the speed impact of this might be.
But if it works at all, you could worry later about optimizing it by keeping
some sort of global flag that tracks the last palette loaded, and skip the
reload if it hasn't changed.

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