Hi Stephen,
How are things?
I've gotten a bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=294787) from a Debian Labplot user who is having trouble with unparseable functions entered into the function dialog when plotting 2D and 3D functions.
I am wondering whether it would be possible to get Labplot to behave more nicely when that situation arises (as it surely will). Maybe labplot could do something like grab the output of whatever libary is calculating the functions, realise that it is dealing with something the library can't parse, throw a warning message dialog to the user, and stop trying to parse the unparseable thing?
To see the behaviour the user is reporting, start labplot and try to plot something like "sin(x)," The comma makes it unparseable, and when Labplot has been run from the command line, all you get is many repetitions of "ERROR : parse error". Labplot appears to hang - I Ctrl-C'd it to kill it. I guess that it would not be obvious to some users what is going on in that situation, especially if they haven't run Labplot from the command line in the first place.
Anyway, it's nice to see that enough people are using the Debian packages to generate some bug reports :)
I hope all is well with you,
Helen.
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