Re: mouse cursor coords not x units

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Am 13.05.2011 14:35, schrieb pl...@pi...:
>>> While the subject is being raised , may I suggest a couple of possible
>>> feature improvements in this area?
>>>
>>> 1) This cycling of "mode" could also be done by clicking on the status
>>> message (click is mapped to "1" key). This would avoid switching mouse
>>> to keyboard which can be handy.
>>
>> Could be done, certainly, but there is currently no code to interpret the
>> mouse location in terms like "on the status message".
>
> Well there is click on graph area (pause mouse etc) so I would have
> thought x_bottom_graph and x_bottom_window would be close to what is
> needed.

Mouse events outside the graph area don't get passed on to the gnuplot 
kernel. It would be straight forward to translate those events to 
keyboard events, though. A trivial patch for Windows is attached.

   Bastian