Andreas Winter

Dear users; Yes, compiling or running QtGrace v0.2.7 on Mac OS X with an Apple-Silicon-Processor is problematic. I had to include some changes to work. Please go to https://sourceforge.net/p/qtgrace/discussion/requested_features/thread/3f3ba2c2/?limit=25#abb1 and download xaa and xab. Then open a command-line "Terminal" and go to the directory xaa and xyb are. Then type cat xaa xab > QtGrace_v027a_Qt6_universal.zip This should generate a zip-file. Unpack it and you should get a QtGrace-executable...

Dear Russ Paielli; I am the developer of QtGrace. I do not know much about the current status of xmgrace, but my impression is that there is no active development and there has not been one since 20 years or so. xmgrace uses the motif-library for the dialogs. The motif-library is also very (!) old and is not supported by current operating systems. The usual alternative is lesstif, but in my experience the support is getting worse. Therefore probably the problems concerning the buttons and menus....

Dear Semen Yesylevsyy; In the past years I had questions regarding rpm-files from different people already. I have done modifications to QtGrace regarding the storage locations for files QtGrace needs on runtime to fit with the linux-filesystem better. But unfortunately I have not been able yet to generate rpm-files. People say they have been successfull, but I have not been able to reproduce their results. Often I had problems getting the newer Linux-distributions to run properly in the first place....

Dear Semen Yesylevskyy; I have tried to install Fedora 42 KDE and compile QtGrace. I got rather far, but the compilation failed due to multiple errors in pars.c (or pars.yacc): "too many arguments in function..." I do not understand this. I never got this error before and I did not change anything and as far as I can see the number of arguments is correct. Did you encounter similar errors? Therefore I could not reproduce your problems in Fedora, yet. But I think I could see what you mean on different...

Dear Semen Yesylevsyy; QtGrace is still alive, but in fact I have not done much in the last year or so. The main issue is, that I do not have urgend need for any improvements myself and that noone has asked about improvements for a long time. Therefore: What is there to do? Main issues for me are Qt6 currently because some things do not work as with Qt5. Apart from that I am still trying to get 64bit-versions of the pdfHaru-library and the fftw3-library. I think about including a 3D-plot next, but...

Dear Semen Yesylevskyy; the antialiasing is usually done internally. I don't think it is a KDE-issue. I can not test it at the moment, but I would suggest you check the settings for antialiasing in the preferences and in the printing setip dialog. Sometimes the antialiasing setzings get lost. I will check this myself as soon as I can. best regards andwin

Dear PeterR; please look at the first entry in https://sourceforge.net/p/qtgrace/discussion/requested_features/thread/3f3ba2c2/ there you can download two files xaa and xab. Download them and open a terminal use a command like cat xaa xab > test.zip and unzip the new file. This is a preview version of QtGrace that should work on Apple Silicon. Please let me know whether this worked for you. best regards andwin

Dear Zahra Zare; Your answers are helpful, but I still can not tell what the reason for your problems is. The error-message: "[Error] Too many ticks ( > MAX_TICKS ), autoticking" occurs usually, when you have a X- or Y-axis with more then 256 tick-lines along the way. MAX_TICKS=256 is hardcoded into QtGrace. In the axis-Properies-dialog you can set start and stop and major-spacing. For example if you have x-start=0 and x-stop=1 and major-spacing=0.2 you get 6 ticks (0/0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0). If you...