Re: writing plot coordinates to a file

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

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 08:46, S.Newhouse wrote:
> 
> Clicking with the middle mouse button on the canvas makes the coordinates of the
> clicked points visible.  Is there a way to get these coordinates to be written
> to a file?  

In version 4.2 the most recent mouse-click coordinates are stored in user
variables MOUSE_X and MOUSE_Y.  So yes, you can print to a file by doing
	set print "coord.out"
	print MOUSE_X, MOUSE_Y

See:  "help mouse variables"
demo: mousevariables.dem

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742