Re: GPVAL_TERM_VCHAR (was: problem with "set x11 {size WW,HH} {position XX,YY}")

[Ben A. <bpa...@ma...>]

On Friday, February 13, 2009, at 01:04PM, "Ralf Juengling" <jue...@cs...> wrote:
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>On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
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>>> I am strictly opposed to adding a "position" property to gnuplot's "set term"
>>> commands.  If you require the ability to place multiple plots relative to
>>> each other, then use multiplot mode and a larger canvas.
>>>
>>
>> Ethan you convinced me that gnuplot's windows should not be moved by the "set term" command.
>>
>> Is there reason to not allow the windows to be opened at specific positions?
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>I can't resist but to add my two cents.
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>Ben was asking that gnuplot supports capabilities which are already
>offered by a system's window manager. I think it is very useful to
>be able to control, per script, the size and position of windows
>opened by that script. But I agree with Ethan and others who
>essentially said that gnuplot is the wrong place to add a solution
>for this. The burden is on the Octave project to come up with a
>cross-platform interface to the different window managers to
>implement that capability. What is need from gnuplot is a way to
>query the window ID or window handle of a terminal window.
>
>On a second thought, in Matlab you can program GUIs for your
>application. And one may embedd plots in a GUI. That means, you
>would need the capability to render a plot in a user-provided
>canvas widget. The x11 terminal currently supports this, have
>you looked at the gpdemos.tcl in gnuplot's demo directory?
>It seems to me, this is what you really want to do, at the end
>of the day.
>
>Ralf
>

Good points ... worth more than 2c I think ;-)

I'll take a look at gpdemos.tcl.

Ben