Gnuplot on Windows

Duane Kaufman duanek at chorus.net
Mon Nov 25 15:03:21 EST 2002


"Paul Simmonds" <psimmo60 at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1037891609.5202.python-list at python.org>...
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a graphical application that uses Michael Haggerty's
> Gnuplot-py extension. On Unix, this works great (thanks Michael) by basing 
> IO on a popen command.
> 
> The Windows version of gnuplot is a GUI app, so a stdin stream is created by 
> wrapping it in a console app using the PostMessage Windows API command (done 
> through the public domain pgnuplot program).
> 
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I too had this problem. I had to change the call to pgnuplot to
include the full path to the program (rather than having it simply on
the path), and got things to work (whoo-Hoo!) using gnuplot 3.8i for
Windows (under Win2k).

Hope this helps,
Duane



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