On 7 October 2017 at 02:14, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > Hi Phil: > > I just discovered on Linux that your IPC3 workaround does allow > -locate mode for example 1 to work perfectly for mouse clicks. (IPC3 > locate mode key hits are not implemented yet.) But I also think that > workaround should not be necessary, and the fundamental problem is > when I originally implemented IPC3 locate mode I used the non-IPC3 > version of wxPlFrame::ReadTransmission to model what the IPC3 version > of that routine should do in locate mode, but it turns out that is a > flawed model! So it is no wonder that you had to implement a > workaround to get locate mode to work at all for the IPC3 case. > > Here are the current (master HEAD) problems with locate mode for the > non-IPC3 case as demonstrated when I run > > examples/c/x01c -dev wxwidgets -locate > > on Linux. > > 1. The initial wxPLViewer response is always a blank screen. > > 2. Furthermore, initial blind mouse clicking on the position of > viewports 2, 3, and 4 gets no response at all. Blind clicking on the > (upper-left) position of viewport 1 does typically get a response (but > sometimes only after several clicks), and if I keep clicking > eventually the actual plot appears, and then after that clicking on > viewports 2, 3, and 4 finally begins to work.
Just tested the latest master head on Windows and it works perfectly. Not sure why it would be different on Linux. > > 3. In no case have I gotten key hits to work (even though there is > code to handle that case for the non-IPC3 version of > wxPlFrame::ReadTransmission). > You are correct, key presses don't work on Linux, that is due to a difference between Linux and windows in ter,s of event capture that I wasn't aware of when I wrote the viewer. It is on my fix list, but feel free to add it to the bug tracker so I don't forget. > My guess is most or all of symptoms 1 and 2 are due to some screwup > with the way events are being handled in the non-IPC3 case, and I > likely propagated those same problems to the IPC3 side of things when > I implemented the IPC3 version of locate mode. I have no explanation > as to why hitting keys gets no response (symptom 3) for the non-IPC3 > case. > > In any case, I hope you are willing to fix the above set of non-IPC3 > issues because once they are solved I believe I should be able to > quickly follow up with a reliable IPC3 variant using your corrected > non-IPC3 implementation as a model. > > 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 > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
