On 6/8/06, van Nek <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote:
> If you try to plot into a png file by using the 'set terminal png' preamble,
> in Windows you have no chance to finish the process, unless you prefer
> things like Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Well, I'm pretty sure the current behavior (need to ctl-alt-del and
kill wgnuplot by hand) is a bug.
I'm pretty sure we want to set the gnuplot options so that Maxima
has a useful behavior for all gnuplot output formats.
I am inclined to make up a rule like this: if gnuplot outputs to a file,
then omit the -persist or - option so that gnuplot/wgnuplot does
not wait, and do not attempt to display the file contents.
Otherwise put -persist or - into list of options.
This rule is at odds with current behavior when output format
is ps (because Maxima launches ghostview to view the output).
If anyone has a general plan for completely reworking the
handling of plotting options, I would be interested to hear
about it.
Robert