Re: [Plplot-devel] Linux OnCreate delay bug -- solution

[Pedro V. <ped...@sp...>]

Hi Alan

>I think your current CentOS test is equivalent to just
> building the test_wxPLplotDemo target?

yes

>Please extend that test to
> building the test_c_wxwidgets target as well.

I did
make VERBOSE=1 test_c_wxwidgets >& out.txt &

there were no plots, just black and grey windows that quickly showed 
and disappeared

output is attached

-Pedro


On 2017-01-04 14:17, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2017-01-04 13:04-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil
>>
>> I got a good plot on CentOS, below output.
>> I'll test other Linux later
>
>>
>>> So what I
>>> would propose is that for this release we attempt to not add or 
>>> remove
>>> anything from the API and just stick with an example that  works 
>>> with
>>> what we've got. Then after this release we can add non-template
>>> classes for wxFrame, wxDialog and wxPanel which can be used really
>>> easily by our users and we have time to test them and make sure the
>>> API for their use is stable before the next release.
>>> Does that seem sensible?
>>
>
> To Phil and Pedro:
>
> @Phil:
>
> The test_c_wxwidgets and test_wxPLplotDemo targets worked without
> issues here.  So we now have three good tests on Linux and one good
> test on Windows.  So this indeed seems promising as a solution to
> this release critical bug, and I thank you for this timely
> release-critical bug fixing.
>
> @Both:
>
> To finish off this topic for the release I need some more from both
> of you.
>
> @Phil:
>
> 1. It sounded from your description that you were changing the 
> example
> to try two different methods of generating those plots so it makes
> sense that test_wxPLplotDemo now produces two identical plots for me,
> but please confirm that the two plots I observed are the intended
> effect.
>
> 2. Please commit a change to README.release describing what you have
> done to deal with this bug equivalent to what Pedro wrote up for his
> solution.
>
> @Pedro: I think your current CentOS test is equivalent to just
> building the test_wxPLplotDemo target?  Please extend that test to
> building the test_c_wxwidgets target as well. You were already
> planning to test Phil's solution on all the Linux platforms 
> accessible
> to you, but please do the full test (build both the test_wxPLplotDemo
> and test_c_wxwidgets targets) for all Linux platforms.  And similarly
> for your Windows platforms.  There, the convenient test_* targets
> won't work so you will have to do the equivalent by hand (run
> wxPLplotDemo and run several C examples with -dev wxwidgets). 
> Finally,
> please also test your own software projects that link with the
> plplotwxwidgets library on all platforms where you expect your own
> software projects to currently work.  (I assume that is just Windows,
> but please test on at least one Linux platform as well if you
> expect your software to work on both Windows and Linux.)
>
> Every tested platform that you add gives us just that much further
> confidence that Phil's solution is robust for this release, and I
> thank you in advance for all this essential testing work for our
> release.
>
> Alan
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> Alan W. Irwin
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Pedro Vicente
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