Hi David
Sorry, I haven't replied - I've been away and off email for close to a month.

Anyway - the problem is that when you create your wxPLplotwindow using
the default constructor it gets a size of wxDefaultSize at
initialisation. This is 20x20 pixels on my Windows system. PLPlot then
uses this size along with the DPI to calculate the most appropriate
text size, which comes out at I think about 0.3 mm. This is converted
to a pt size and used to create a wxFont. One of either of the
following is happening wxFont only accepts integers for pt size and
the pt size is less than 1 so gets rounded down to 0 and no text is
drawn, or the text is sortof there, but it is so small it doesn't
actually show up.

The easiest workaround is to specify a size at construction time -
this will change when your frame actually sorts out the sizing of its
child windows, but that's fine. So something like

m_right = new wxPLplotwindow<wxPanel>(true, wxSize(800, 800));

works and the text displays.

You should also be able to manually set the size using pls->schr() in
your Plot function, but I've just quickly tried that and it didn't
work. I'll try to investigate why.

Hope that gets you going for now.

Phil



On 6 June 2018 at 13:01, David Bergman <stuntguitar1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Thanks.  It seems that we're making some progress.  I am working on Windows
> and I do not get the warning
> "Somehow we attempted to plot before the wxPLplotwindow was ready. The plot
> will not be drawn".
> I get a plot with some missing elements.  I've not tried to build or run in
> Linux.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> David
>
>
> On 6/6/2018 1:48 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-05-25 15:37-0400 David Bergman wrote:
>>
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> I regret waiting this long to reply but have had a lot of work.
>>> To tell you the truth I am not sure what exactly caused the issue but
>>> I've deleted the "wxOVERRIDE" from the code, which was clearly a copy-paste
>>> from a wxWidgets example.
>>>
>>> I copied the simple.cpp code into the PLplot-Widgets example.
>>>
>>> cmake and nmake both ran find but cmake install generated the following
>>> fatal error.  Recall that I had quite a bit of trouble getting it to install
>>> the first time and I may have missed an option that is required.  Not sure
>>> if my error is due to the same issue that caused your error.
>>>
>>>
>>> Install the project...
>>> -- Install configuration: "Debug"
>>> -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/plplot/share/doc/plplot/ABOUT
>>> CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:39 (file):
>>>  file INSTALL cannot copy file "C:/plplot-5.13.0/ABOUT" to "C:/Program
>>> Files
>>>  (x86)/plplot/share/doc/plplot/ABOUT".
>>>
>>>
>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1'
>>> Stop.
>>
>>
>> Hi David:
>>
>> In my case, it was configuration of a new computer which kept me from
>> replying to what you said above in a timely way.  My apologies for that
>> delay.  But that new computer configuration has now been a success (I
>> am writing this from the new computer and PLplot also builds
>> on that new computer) so I now have a chance to answer you.
>>
>> I think the nmake trouble you are having is due to the (default) install
>> prefix
>> "C:/Program Files (x86)" having a blank in the path.  I think all those
>> "blank in
>> path" issues are now gone in the git version of PLplot so please try that
>> not
>> only for that reason but also because that is the version of PLplot I test
>> with
>> in any case.
>>
>> I tried a similar test (copying simple.cpp on top of
>> examples/c++/wxPLplotDemo.cpp) here,
>> but in my case I configured PLplot with the cmake option -DBUILD_TEST=ON
>> which
>> allows users to test in the build tree without having to install. The
>> result on
>> my new Debian Buster platform was I could build and run simple.cpp using
>> "make test_wxPLplotDemo".  That test had two key warnings which were
>>
>> Gtk-Message: 22:23:32.181: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent.
>> This is discouraged.
>>
>> on the command line + a dialog box with the following contents:
>>
>> "Somehow we attempted to plot before the wxPLplotwindow was ready.  The
>> plot will not be drawn".
>>
>> And indeed that was followed by a blank plot.  So it appears your
>> simple.cpp is still
>> not set up correctly for the Linux case.
>>
>> I have put this thread back on the plplot-general list because Phil
>> Rosenberg, the author of the PLplot wxwidgets binding and device may
>> wish to comment since he had similar "waiting for events" trouble in
>> the past on Linux which might be related to what I am seeing on Linux with
>> the current simple.cpp.
>>
>> 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
>> __________________________
>
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