Re: towards 4.4

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

On Thursday 28 January 2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> --- Tatsuro MATSUOKA  wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > --- Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > 
> > > > The patch gives s gui 'gnuplot pause' window when the command 'pause -1' 
> > > > is executed when terminal is set to 'windows'. When WGP_CONSOLE is true. 
> > > > the code should be modified. I have encountered this problem and I have 
> > > > considered to treat the side effect. I will show it afterwards.
> > > 
> > > "pause -1" shows a GUI Pause dialog. You would prefer to have just 
> > > fgets(stdin) for gnuplot.exe. I've tried it, but then mouse hotkeys are not 
> > > working during pause. So I prefer the current GUI dialog.
> > 
> > What do you mean mouse hotkeys?
> > 
> > Is 'the hotkey 'h' in the graph window' a example of mouse hotkey.
> > 
> > The gnuplot.exe on windows on current state (without your patch) allows hotkeys ,'h','p',
> > 'l'...... on
> > graph window when gnuplot is in pause -1 and pause mouse mode.  
> > In pause -1 mode, we can use mouse zooming on the current gnuplot.exe on windows.
> > 
> > Is the above a problem?
> > 
> > However only return key breaks 'pause -1' for wgnuplot and gnuplot-x11(I have confirmed on
> > cygwin) but
> > any key breaks pause -1.
> > 
> > That is a problem, I think.
> > 
> > You patch at least changes of the feature of pause -1 on gnuplot.exe on windows from current
> > state. 
> > If people hope this change, I am not against it.
> 
> Although I wrote the above, the gui dialog on gnuplot.exe for windows is not my favor. 
> Perhaps it is better hear the opinions from other people.
> 
> 
> BTW
> 
> I found that Petr applied his patch for 'pause mouse' to cvs trees.  I have build them and tried
> all.dem
> 
> I have found a serious side effect of this patch. Gui dialog 'gnuplot pause' does not appear on
> wgnuplot when terminal is wxt.
> 
> We can break pause press return on the command window of wgnuplot.exe but after return the graph
> window is active, we have to turn back to the command window. This is really annoying to carry out
> all.dem. 

That "after return the graph window is active" problem is there all the time
when running the windows terminal under linux/wine.  I have assumed that 
people using MSWin want it that way, although I myself find it incredibly annoying.
My preference would be to never allow the program to steal focus from the
command window, and get rid of the pop-up "pause" widget altogether.
But I'm not using MSWin anyway. So if these behaviours are considered normal
by people who do use MSWin, go ahead and ignore me.

	Ethan

> The should be corrected, I think.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro