Re: [Plplot-general] Problem with plrender tk driver for plplot-5.2.1

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dave Nystrom wrote:

> I have installed plplot-5.2.1 and generated a plmeta file that I want to look
> at with plrender.  When I attempt to use the tk driver which has support for
> zooming, I receive the following error message.....

Thanks, Dave, for reporting this bug in 5.2.1.  (I think it is the first bug
report for that version.) I can confirm this bug for the latest CVS version (and
presumably it is in 5.2.1 as well since current cvs has so little change
from 5.2.1).  When you are asked to specify a device from the menu, xwin,
psc, and png work fine, but tk does not. However an easy workaround is to
avoid the menu by specifying the device explicitly on the command line,
e.g.,

plrender -dev tk file.meta

I have no idea why the menu isn't working for tk while it works for other
devices and also works if you specify -dev tk on the commmand line. But this
set of results should considerably narrow down where the problem is
occurring. Rafael introduced a change in the way devices were handled
between 5.2.0 and 5.2.1, and I imagine there is some minor configuration
issue there (unique device numbers?) with device tk that is causing the menu
problem (but no command-line tk problem and no menu problem for other
devices).

> Also, I did a cvs checkout of plplot using the following command:
>
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/plplot co plplot
>
> to obtain a copy of the head version to see if the problem had been fixed in
> the head version.  When I tried to build the head version, there was no
> configure script.  Could someone tell me how to generate the configure script
> for the cvs head version?

I assume you don't need the cvs cookbook since cvs also has the menu
problem, and the workaround should also work for 5.2.1.

However, for everybody's information, I gave the cvs build cookbook most
recently on July 31st on plplot-devel (with a reference to my post on July
29th which lists the autotools versions you need).  Currently the archives
of plplot-devel don't seem to be working, but when they do those posts give
all the details you will need if you want to build from cvs.

Alan
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