gnuplot MacOSX GUI For Mac

gnuplot MacOSX GUI is a frontend (a Graphical User Interface) for gnuplot, a command-driven Terminal application for data plotting and fitting.

This frontend gives a graphical user interface for many of the commands of gnuplot, thus removing the need to remember the syntax and formatting of the mostly used commands.

· Commands are grouped in sections (tabs) and should be self-explicatory if you know the basics of gnuplot (as you should). · The "Command History" button opens a drawer with the command history of the current session. Clicking on a command writes it in the command line at the bottom of the window, letting you execute again the command and modify it if necessary. · The "History Editor" button opens a drawer with a text editor that can be synchronized to and from the Command History but that can also be completely independent from it. You can edit sequences of commands that you can save for later use and execute as a whole. It's not a real scripting facility, since each line of text is a single command to gnuplot. If you want to run a gnuplot program or script, call it from the command line at the bottom of the window as you would do in the Terminal. · The "Output" button opens a drawer giving you the standard output of gnuplot. If there are some errors in the commands you send to gnuplot or if a command does not give a visual output (as the fit command), you can see gnuplot output here. Also, the "Show all" button performs the show all command and outputs to this drawer. · In the Preferences dialog box you can select the path to your gnuplot installation. Any changes will become effective upon relaunch of gnuplot MacOSX GUI. Be aware that some fault-protection is included into the code, but you may not be given a warning if you select a path to some file that is not executable or is not a Terminal-based installation of gnuplot. On relaunching gnuplot MacOSX GUI, the application may crash, freeze or have unexpected behaviour. Be prepared to force-terminate it in such circumstances. Deleting the preference file (~/Library/Preferences/gnuplot_MacOSX_GUI.plist) will restore the default condition letting you launch again the application and selecting another path if the default one is not valid.