Re: pause mouse broken since v. 4.2?

[dbionda <db...@bl...>]

Petr Mikulik <mikulik <at> physics.muni.cz> writes:
> 
> > > On Windows, there was always a window.
> > 
> > That makes some sense for "pause -1",
> > 
> > But it makes no sense at all for "pause mouse" or "pause key".
> > Can we get rid of it?
> >
> > OK. I've just tried the 4.0 Windows version. It's broken.
> > So "pause mouse" was not usable in 4.0 either, and this
> > bug report is not quite correct. It's not a regression,
> > since it never did work.
> 
> You are right.
> 
> > Why did no one ever file this as a bug report?
> > Do we have no Windows users?
> 
> Nobody took care about. I think that nobody will, as wgnuplot does not have 
> stdout, so that reading the clicked point coordinates by e.g. Octave makes 
> no sense.
> 
> > It should have been reported and fixed long ago.
> > Now it's probably too late for 4.2
> 
> The patch to could be trivial.
> But I don't see it.
> 
> ---
> PM

Thank you both for your replies. In version 4.0 (Win32) "pause mouse" puts a 
window on the screen with "ok" and "cancel" buttons, similarly to "pause -1". 
I was assuming this was the correct behaviour. Since version 4.1 the buttons 
are no longer there and the window cannot be dismissed. Clicking the mouse has 
no effect at all. Since this seems to be a Win32-specific issue, I think that 
for the moment I will stick with "pause -1", which actually does what I need.

Davide