RE: [Plplot-devel] tk03 bug

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

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> I think it would be worth checking if a similar config without dynamic
> drivers, shows the same problem.

Good call!  (I should have thought of that myself, but I was fixated on the
fact that the tk driver is static.) There is no warning message at all with
static configuration, and I exercised the GUI quite hard hitting "open new"
many times and getting good-looking results (and no warning message) in
every case.

So somehow the dynamic configuration is interfering with the static tk
driver enough to generate the warning message consistently for me, and that
interference does not seem to happen for static configuration. This problem
may have been with us from the early days of the dynamic form of drivers.
My tests of 5.0.4 were of course for static, and my few tk tests since then
might also have been for static configuration.

I hope you or Maurice (who I view as our Tcl/Tk experts here) can get to the
bottom of this one in short order.  Although there don't seem to be any
practical consequences of the warning message you get with dynamic
configuration and tk03, I am always concerned such messages are a symptom of
some deeper-lying, important problem.

Alan