Re: wxwidgets terminal follows its pace

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 June 2005 07:33 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
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>>Ethan Merritt wrote:
>>
>>>Am I missing the point?
>>
>>Partly so, by my understanding.  A large part of the idea behind having
>>a wxwidgets output driver is that it will work not just on X11.
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> I see. I was confused by Timoth=E9e's screen shots, which showed the
> plot in an X-window.

I too thought the plot looked exactly like the X11 plots and was misleadi=
ng, but I assumed there was more to come in the way that Hans describes.

>  So you're saying that wxwidgets layers on top
> of X if the system supports X, and layers on top of something else
> on systems that don't support X?
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> At the cost of accepting C++.  But I suppose that's a net win :-)

But you described before that it should be insulated, right?  I.e., some =
drivers would be broken out, which means the wxwidgets need only be the o=
ne compiled under C++ so long as there is a compatible function call/retu=
rn.

I guess I can see some advantages to the wxwidgets.  For example, I think=
 it would be a step toward what Octave developers have been pining, i.e.,=
 a graphics system that resembles Matlab.  They've already made moves in =
that direction using other plotting engines.  (They've a scheme, I think,=
 to move the plotting engine outside the core so that people can choose w=
hat to use; but I've not totally understood what they have in mind.)

Dan