Re: no fltk

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 1 June 2012 09:58, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Fltk does not work for me on Debian.  Should I report it as a Debian bug
>>> or it is still too experimental that bug should be reported?
>>
>>It would be interesting to know how it does not work...
>
> It's a strange failure mode, I would not know where the problem is.  I
> do
>
> plot (something)
> graphics_toolkit fltk
> close all
> plot (something)
>
> and everything looks nice: the window appears, if I plot something else
> it gets updated.  But it does not go away.  If I call close, or close
> all, nothing happens.  If then I plot something again, the window gets
> selected, the interior becomes freezed, and the frame does not go away,
> not even if I close it by pressing on the close button.  Even changiong
> to gnuplot (which works) and back again to fltk changes nothing: the
> only way to make the window disappears seems to be closing Octave.
>
> Before freezing, interaction with the winodw only works at the next
> plot: resizing or pressing the G button has effect only on next plot
> command.
>
> At one point the window apparently captured mouse and keyboard input, so
> I caould not interact with X any more and had to restart it.  So I am
> not keen on using it again nless for experimenting :)

Please report this. I think it's not the first time I hear a
description like this one. I don't think it's specific to Debian.

Hopefully during the code sprints in July, we can stabilise fltk more.

- Jordi G. H.