Hi Pedro: On 2016-12-22 18:34-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote:
> @Alan [...] > [The wxwidgets developer] says we cannot expect a timely response from the > "create" event in > wxApp::OnInit(), > which is the way wxPLplotDemo has. > > so, we have to change that, it just cannot be like it is now. Good point! > > @Phil > > [Three] options Your ideas for fixing this issue are rightly directed to Phil because I don't have much expertise to help you in this area. Therefore, I will confine what I say in response to just one issue with case 3 that you brought up. > But [option 3] would probably break existing applications. > but at the moment this is the only solution that we know has no potencial > issues. I don't think we should be too concerned with breaking applications since Phil's wxwidgets approach is still pretty new and experimental, and it was breaking them in any case as you have been demonstrating. :-) I am not tuned in to wxwidgets very much, but I never heard of anyone using the old plplotwxwidgets library for anything. And the only use of Phil's new plplotwxwidgets library I have heard of up to this point is your use and Greg Jung's use. In his case he used that library as a means of getting the GDL (Gnu Data Language) project (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language> to provide PLplot-generated plots on Windows. But I am pretty sure his approach was a private experiment and is not an official part of GDL. So I suspect that it is just you and Greg that we would be inconveniencing here, but I assume both of you would be happy to accept that inconvenience if the result was that from then on you were building your apps and libraries on top of a plplotwxwidgets library that was rock solid. It sounds like case 3 is the only rock-solid solution we have up to now so my naive vote would be for that solution unless Phil comes up with a different rock-solid solution that he prefers. So please thrash it out between you, and I look forward to the decision you two make and the implementation that will quickly follow that decision about the best way to fix this issue in a fundamental way. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/intel _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
