[Gnuplot-info] information about a data point in scatter diagram

[Anton G. <ant...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I have the following problem and I hope you can help me with it:

I create 2D scatter plots from a text file, which works fine. But now I
want to retrieve additional information about a specific data point. For
example, I plot the weights of different design alternatives against the
production costs. Now I want to know the number of the design with the
lowest costs and the highest weight. Plotting the design numbers as labels
is not really an option, because their are to many points which makes the
labels unreadable.

I thought that it might be possible to retrieve data from a point by moving
the mouse over that point. But I'm not sure if that is possible at all. If
not or if you have other ideas, pleas let me know!

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Anton