#35 mouse coordinate read-out in multiplot mode

[Anonymous]

In multiplot mode in left down corner show wrong values
for mouse cursor, when it on second or other (not first)
plot.

I know, in help file Your are write that mouse not
supported for multiplot but is it too hard to fix this?

Version: 3.8i.0 under WinXP

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

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First, this is not a bug, but a documented limitation you
want lifted, so I'm re-assigning this as a Feature Request.

Second, this *is* hard to do. Otherwise, the guys who did
the mouse stuff almost certainly would have done it right
away. The reason is the basic way gnuplot implements the
"multiplot" feature. Individual plots in a multiplot series
are completely unrelated to each other, so it's essentially
impossible for the mouse interface to make any sense of
what's in the output window.

[Petr Mikulik]

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At the first look, it would be nice to have this feature.
But, it is not possible to do: gnuplot remembers only the
last plot in multiplot, others are lost. You know that
"replot" does not work in multiplot. Consequently, neither
mousing + hotkeys can work, as "replot" is used in many cases.

Then neither drawing coords can work. What would happen if
two plots overlap? Or when zooming outside the current plot
border, which you do to have slightly larger ranges?

In summary, don't use multiplot for data analysis. Actually,
I never needed this for those 5 years of mouseable gnuplot.
If you really want several mouseable graphs, then open
several gnuplot instances, or several X11 graph windows.