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

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> To: tmacchant3Tait; gnuplot-beta
> Cc: 
> Date: 2014/6/24, Tue 08:43
> Subject: Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
>>  To: Tait  gnuplot-beta> Cc: 
>>  Date: 2014/6/24, Tue 06:18
>>  Subject: Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>   From: Tait
>>>   To: gnuplot-bet
>>>   Cc: 
>>>   Date: 2014/6/24, Tue 05:32
>>>   Subject: Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot
>>> 
>>>   Ethan A Merritt 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.
>> 
>> 
>>  Tait is right.
>>  For qt on windows, mouselabels demo does not work.
>> 
>>  As the first work, I will try to mouselabels demo to wrok on qt for 
> windows.
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
> 
> 
> I misled the mouselabels demo, I have execute it on wxt and windows terminmal on 
> windows.
> That worked but echo back 'paused' to the command screen at each key 
> stoke.
> This is not a bug but it is annoying.
> 
> I have execute mouselabels demo on qt terminal on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
> 
> It partially work. Key input reflected in the plot window.
> However, <del>, <bs> and <esc> work but <tab> does not 
> work.
> 
> The qt terminal seems to have bug for key input handling but behave differently 
> on windows and Linux.
> 
> Regards
> 
This is just information. 
On plot window of qt term 0n windows, key command like "h", "p" is effective
so that communication of qt terminal to gnuplot is effective.
So it is strange why mouselabels demo does not work at all on the qt terminal on windows.

Tatsuro