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

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

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ethan A Merritt 
> To: gnuplot-beta; Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: 
> Date: 2014/6/24, Tue 04:55
> Subject: Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot
> 
> On Tuesday, 24 June, 2014 04:49:36 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  > From: sfeam 
>>  > To: gnuplot-beta
>>  > Cc: Petr Mikulik 
>>  > Date: 2014/6/23, Mon 14:52
>>  > Subject: Re: How to get key information from qt terminal to gnuplot
>>  > 
>>  Although Ethan's idea is attractive, I will try console raise feature 
> for qt terminal by Petr's way at this moment.
>>  To implement Ethan's idea, we have to have wrapper function to get 
> keycode.
>>  This is because each terminal implements the way to get keycode diffident 
> way and keycode map for each the terminal is different (especially of windows).
>> 
>>  I will wait that someone who has good knowledge inter platform try to 
> implement.
> 
> 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.


I have a look into this issue a little deeper.
Currently terminal raise and lower commands are treated in command.c

The treatment for OS2, X11, Windows and WXWIDGETS is managed in

void
raise_lower_command(int lower)

I do know the reason why but those are written in command.c but not mouse.c.


Tatsuro