Re: gnuplot projects, terminal modules

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> >> > 4) Mousing support for multiplot mode
> >>
> >> This one is probably more difficult than it seems.
> >
> > At least in x11 it should not be fairly easy. Gnuplot_x11 already
> > stores plot bounds and axis scaling information, used to echo back
> > the mouse coordinates based on the current cursor coordinates in
> > the window.  To make mouse coordinates work for multiplot, one just
> > needs a  pre-test on the cursor coordinates to see which scaling
> > table should be used.  So I think echoing the appropriate mouse
> > coordinates for various subplots on the screen would be easy.

I think so. And it does not depend on x11 at all.

> > The difficult part would be to do something like zooming a subplot;
> > as currently implemented, that would require going back to the

Yes, that's impossible .. unless the whole output of "save ..." just after 
the plot is stored internally.


> Well, everything is already there, see 'help raise' (you can do 'raise 5'
> to raise the 5th window).
> 
> Currently, if you do:
> 
> set term x11
> plot x
> set term wxt
> plot x
> raise # then both wxt and x11 windows are raised.
> 
> With my patch (whose first goal is to eradicate that ugly code from
> command.c):
> 
> 
> set term x11
> plot x
> set term wxt
> plot x
> raise # only wxt windows is raised.
> set term x11
> raise # only x11 windows is raised.

Will the "raise" command keep raising all windows of wxt and/or of x11?
And which one will it choose when currently there is e.g. "set term post"?

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