wxwidgets terminal

[L. <tim...@en...>]

Hi !

I am a pleased user of gnuplot. I often use it, standalone or through
Octave, to study physic datas.

In order to make it more user friendly (but it already is, with a little
practice), I thought to write a terminal to wxwidgets 
(hhtp://www.wxwidgets.org), a gui toolkit. It would have the advantage of 
being cross-platform. Moreover, I think it would be really easy to copy
all the features of current x11 or windows terminals, and then to add
toolbars and other useful buttons ou dialogs. In particular, it would 
be something interesting to make 3rd-party software (like Octave,
or Maxima) reach a higher level of usablility.

I have looked for such projects, but found none. There's a
couple of projects which aim at buildung a complete gui for
gnuplot, but they appear dead. And none of them was using a
new terminal, as far as I guess.

I am not afraid at all by such a project, and I have began to
learn how to use wxwidgets. But I have a question : wxwidgets
is a library for C++, and gnuplot is written in C. So, can
I write a terminal for gnuplot in C++ ?

Can gnuplot be compiled entirely with a C++ compiler (g++ in my
case) ? Does somebody know a way to do it (I've not tried) ?

Do you think the whole idea of writing a wxwidgets terminal is good ?

I would be pleased to get your opinions.

Timothée Lecomte
French student, at the ENS, Paris (http://www.ens.fr)