From: <pl...@pi...> - 2014-09-20 07:46:24
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On 09/20/14 02:28, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > Those were the two ideas that came to my mind, too. > Additionally, I think the icon could be much enhanced > with the addition of a big red arrow from the graph to > the clipboard. In fact, I'd interchange the current > positions of the graph and the clipboard in the icon, > so that the arrow would align with the typical (western) > workflow "left to right". Oh, for pity's sake no more dumb-assed, " you have just pressed X", "are you sure" windozian messages. I do not want half my work flow to be dismissing stupid messages telling what I've just done. This is all part of the universal obscurity-by-icons problem. Thirty year ago it would have been the word "copy" , now everything has to be an icon. In the pressure to save space the icons have to be small and therefore have limited means of communicating anything. They are just enough to be reminders once you know what the interface does. That's what tool-tips are for. That is a fairly standard, cross platform technique.If you don't know what something does , hover. The "top left" convention is for MENUS, this is an icon tool bar. There is no convention that says the first entry on a tool bar should bring up a file_open dialogue. Sorry, Philipp, you just fooled yourself by making unfounded assumptions that wxt would do the same thing and the qt terminal instead of trying to discover what the (new to you ) interface did. I've been using wxt pretty much all along with gnuplot and did not find this feature at first, until the day I decided to find out what all the buttons did. The tool-tips soon made it clear. This is a very useful feature and it is very useful in that it gives you exactly what you are looking at. I use this almost exclusively for creating permanent copy of my graphs since the png terminal produce something so different from what is on the screen.: different fonts, different line widths, different colours.... Usually by the time I get to want output, I've got the graph looking the way I need it. I do not want something else stored or in hardcopy. Now if qt allows saving the _screen image_ of the graph in png or similar format, this would be a good addition to wxt. Firing up Gimp, just to do a paste and then use its file "export" dialogue is a time waster. Adding a 'save to file' icon that takes the same image that goes to clipboard would be good enhancement, should anyone feel inclined. Peter. > > Another idea is to change the functionality - I am not so > familiar with the capabilities of wxt, but would it be > possible to save the graph to PDF/PNG immediately, rather > than (merely) to the clipboard? This would naturally lead > to a file-selection dialog, as in the qt terminal. > > I should add that I really like this feature in principle, > because the workflow of saving (actually: exporting) graphs > from gnuplot has always been a bit awkward (5 steps: set t, > set o, replot, set o, set t). So, being able to do it all > in one mouse-click is a huge improvement (in my opinion), > and also brings gnuplot's behavior closer to what current > users have come to expect from applications. > >> > >> >Actually, I'll agree with Philipp: nothing about the GUI options in >> >the wxt plot window is immediately clear. For example, what is the >> >cross-hair cursor supposed to do, as you move it around? >> > >> >Allin Cottrell |