Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> said (on 2014/06/23):
> Isn't it true that all terminals already do the necessary key-code
> processing so that they can send key events to the core code in mouse.c?
> 
> For example, does  "mouselabels.dem" work on MSWin?   That demo reads
> keystrokes in the plot window, turns them into labels in the core code, and then
> replots with the new label.   If the demo works, it shows that keycodes including
> the space-key are correctly transmitted to the core code.
> 
> 	Ethan

The mouselabels demo does work* on Windows in wxt and windows terms,
although one cannot create a label containing a space (because the
space brings up the console) or q (it is ignored).

* for some value of "works"... The Windows terminal tends to eat
keystrokes unless they're typed much more slowly than a normal typing
pace. The wxt terminal places the red text on top of the black, making
it impossible to read either, and sometimes (I haven't figured out how
to replicate it on-demand) backspace doesn't work. Both seem to add an
extra "\033" label after hitting ESC to end label input. None of the
Windows builds have a qt terminal to try.