On 2010-05-29 17:33-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Hi Hazen: >> >> Thanks for working on this bug. Your current fix (revision 11019) does >> give >> the desired result (a smooth exit when you close the window) if it is the >> last or only page for a plot. However, if it is some page other than the >> last for a multi-page example, instead of giving a smooth exit like >> qtwidget >> does, xcairo simply moves to the next page which is not desirable behaviour >> (especially if you have many pages and want to stop the plot immediately). > > I'm with Maurice on this one. If the driver calls plexit() then it will > shutdown the users application as well unless they go to the trouble of > adding their own plexit handler. I think this is a bad idea, as it pretty > much puts us back to where we were with closing the window except that now we > no longer get the error message from X.
I believe you are referring to the following quote from Andrew (rather than Maurice): <quote> This is something of a tricky issue. Personally I don't like calling plexit - it seems like an overkill, particularly for interactive use like plframe or the octave bindings. This is what other drivers (e.g. qtwidget) do though. Actually this is a more general issue where you don't want plexit to be terminal to the whole program. I find this really irritating with octave for example where you do a whole load of calculations, then an error in plplot causes octave to crash and you have to repeat the whole thing. A way round this is to call plsexit with a replacement exit handler. Perhaps we should implement this for plframe and octave? An alternative would be some flag that bindings could set to say "Don't make calls to plexit terminal"? Of course this still leaves tricky questions about neatly tidying up the plplot stream. This is something that plplot isn't very good at. </quote> I certainly agree with the general principle that we should never clobber the environment that is calling PLplot when we close the window for our interactive devices, but clearly Andrew has some implementation concerns. Hazen, while waiting for the noclobber implementation for closing the window, the question remains what to do in the meanwhile for closing the window for xcairo. I would favour calling plexit just to be consistent with what the other devices do for now. Currently, that does not happen for -dev xcairo. Instead, on multipage examples it simply moves to the next page. So I think you should reopen 2998264 until the plexit solution is in place for all pages for xcairo or until the noclobber implementation is done. 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
