Re: [Gnuplot-info] Fwd: scatterplot legend mousing: sample points too small

[Alan E. D. <ln...@gm...>]

That helps alot.  I still would like to have a large color blob as the key
sample, even with minute points.

Thank you very much.

Alan


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Ethan Merritt <eam...@gm...> wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Gnuplot-info] scatterplot legend mousing: sample points too
> small
>
> On Friday, August 30, 2013 10:18:21 AM Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I am plotting 12 sets of data, with mousing enabled, in distinct colors.
> > In order to turn off the plot for one of the datasets, one clicks on the
> > legend line for that dataset's color.   This is a large dataset,
> > relatively, with thousands of points for each set, plotted in an
> extremely
> > small size of 0.04 or 0.05.
> >
> > I have not found a way to independenly specify the legend to display a
> > sample of the color in any other manner than as a colored point.   I have
> > seen some kludges mentioned, such as to plot an empty set first, then
> plot
> > over it with the data.  The issue here is that I am plotting 12 different
> > files at one time.
> >
> > Is there some way to use a square or rectangle of color as the sample, of
> > arbitrary size?
> >
> > Another problem: for different terminals, the legend should be clicked at
> > some different part of the line in the legend.  For the svg terminal,
> this
> > seems to not be the sample, while in the wxt terminal, it is the sample
> (of
> > course, it is spotty, because the samples are also of the small size
> > 0.05mm.
>
> The problem is that each output medium (svg/html/wxt/qt/x11) provides
> very different basic operations and mechanisms for triggering them.
> Gnuplot tries to create more or less the same result on all of them, but
> the similarity is limited by the different tools that are available.
>
> That said, the intent is that the active area for toggling the plot
> consists
> of (1) the symbol itself, which in your case is very small, and
> (2) the rectangular bounding box for the text associated with that symbol.
> So it should work to click on the plot label text.
>
> > I also notice that with the svg terminal, when viewed with a browser, the
> > response is slow.  Is it possible this is due to the large size (5MB) of
> > the file?
>
> It is certainly possible.  Different browsers use different svg
> interpreters,
> so you might get better response with a different browser.
>
>    Ethan
>
> > This is a very interesting capability.   Can anyone shed light on how to
> > get this working properly?
> >
> > Alan
>
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