Re: Cairo-PNG

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

On Friday 09 March 2007 10:48, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>=20
> I just wanted to point out that it might be useful to implement such a
> functionality for wxt (Timoth=E9e was a bit sceptic).
>=20
> > > For many users this is the most natural way indeed. Some people prefer
> > > scripting, some prefer clicking.
> >
> > I don't understand what that has to do with aqua.
> > In any interactive gnuplot terminal, you can bind a hotkey/click to a
> > print command of your choice.  This is not limited to aquaterm.
>=20
> "bind a hotkey" is not equivalent to "have it in menu". I never came
> to an idea of binding a hotkey.

Well, I'll repeat a suggestion that I have made before.
There is a nice button-panel at the top of the wxt terminal,=20
but no mechanism for a user to add buttons to it.  We could
do this via the existing "bind" command, or use some other
mechanism altogether, perhaps a configuration file.

Either way, the idea would be to specify an icon=20
(e.g. "~/icons/printer.png") and an action script
("set term push; set term pdf; set output '| lpr'; replot; set term pop").
Clicking the button triggers the script, just as it would for a hotkey bind=
ing.=20

I may well get around to trying to implement this myself,
but I was hoping Timoth=E9e would again speak up to say
"that's a one-line change if you know where to look".


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