Re: [Plplot-general] Using plplot in an interactive environment

[Andreas D. <qu...@ma...>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:39:25PM -0600, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
> Andreas Dietrich writes:
>  > c) Generate immediate plmeta-represenation in the main process and
>  > fork()/exec(plrender) to display it. This could even provide interactive
>  > data readout via fifo. Drawback: plrender cannot read from a pipe or a 
>  > fifo(fgetpos fails). This means
> Your change works fine.  Just a case of bitrot, since I almost never test
> the i/o to/from a pipe.  Certainly the plmeta driver is supposed to be able to
> write to a pipe, and plrender to read from one.  I remember adding that
> capability, ages ago.  I tested it with:
> 
> x07c -dev plm -o - | plrender -dev xwin -i -
> 
> works great.  Available in current cvs image.

How embarassing ;-) what I tried (and found not working) was something like
plrender -dev xwin -i test.fifo

You are right, it works great.

Thank you very much for your time.

Andreas
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