Re: wxgnuplot and the screen terminal

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 14 April 2006 01:06 pm, you wrote:
> 
> I would prefer to see a new entry in the term table, for term->close(),

That would be a bit confusing, because it would logically operate on the
current terminal.  The idea of "set term close <num>" is that it closes
an old terminal plot window, while leaving the current one untouched.
You could probably make it work, but I'm not thrilled about the semantics.

> which could probably go along with new term->raise(), term->lower()
> instead of the way these two calls are currently implemented directly in
> command.c

I would rather see all the 'raise' and 'lower' commands go away altogether.  
My position remains that an application program has no business raising or
lowering my windows.  But yes, a terminal entry point would be cleaner
than the current special case coding in command.c


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA