Dear Andrej,
Thank you very much for your patch. The plotting I tried now works as
in Windows.
I will try other commands as well and get back to you if I see any problems.
I think this should be committed to the standard distribution of
maxima.
-Cheers,
-sen
In general, I On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> On 11/30/06, sen1 at math.msu.edu <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I noticed that (with xmaxima) there is a difference between plotting
>> capabilities in Linux (Fedora Core 4) and Win-XP.
>>
>> For instance,
>>
>> consider any plot2d: e.g.
>>
>> (%i1) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,6]);
>>
>> In Linux and Win-XP, they both produce the sine plot.
>>
>> But, the middle mouse button in Win-XP produces the coordinates of a point
>> in the plot. In Linux (with gnuplot gnuplot-4.0.0-7), the middle
>> mouse button has no effect.
>>
>> In Linux, plotting the sin(x) function with gnuplot directly allows
>> one to click the middle mouse button and get the coordinates on the
>> screen.
>>
>> So, I presume this is a problem about how maxima uses gnuplot in
>> Linux.
>>
>> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> This is because maxima does not use pipes to communicate with gnuplot.
> I wrote a patch for plot.lisp which fixes this
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/12271/)
> but there was no reply from the list and I stopped working on it.
>
> Andrej
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