Re: Changes to stable branch?

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

On Oct 22, 2004, at 00:07, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:22 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, on 10.3 and any previous system with X11 installed it will
>>> startup with terminal x11.
>>> Somewhat better than 'unknown' ;-)
>>
>> Ah.  I'm starting to get the picture on how Aqua functions.  The
>> suggested fixes all sound logical to me.
>
> I hesitate a little to say this, but it seems to me that unless and
> until aquaterm provides all the features of x11, it is better to
> default to x11.

No problem. We'll just let it be the default if x11 is not available.

>
>
> If there is something in particular that users
> need from aquaterm, they can easily do a 'set term'.  But
> new users who are presented with aquaterm by default may
> not even realize that they are missing out on capabilities
> (Mousing!) they would have had under x11.
>
> Per has been doing a great job of developing the aquaterm
> option, but so far as I can tell it's still not quite up to the level
> of the other primary gnuplot interfaces.

As far as mousing is concerned, I had a quick look and hacked up 
aquaterm.trm to support passing events from aquaterm windows some time 
ago.
I never finished it because I couldn't figure out how aquaterm events 
and keyboard events (at the prompt, not in the plot window) were 
supposed to interact.

I seems to me that the driver will have to duplicate the main event 
loop and take over control while mousing is active.

I'm reluctant to have an opininon where I don't intend to put down 
work, but wouldn't it be cleaner to have a single event loop and an 
event queue where any input unit (keystrokes at the prompt, mouse 
clicks etc.) put their events to be processed by the event loop in a 
timely manner?
By making events (i.e. their structure) device independent at the level 
of the main loop/event queue the drivers would only have to translate 
an event as it is recieved and could then forget about it.

An any case, this is not something I have strong opinions about and in 
case anyone feels like working on providing event support for the 
aquaterm driver I'd gladly provide as much help as I can.

/Per