Re: interactive terminal (was: Re: lua help build, autotools update)

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

> 
> * click a button labeled "add title", and get a dialog window that
> says "set title" followed by an input line where i can enter
> whatever would come after the keyword on the console. There is an
> "OK" button which silently executes the command, possibly a second
> button that automatically says "replot" afterwards.
> 
> * said dialog window has a few additional buttons which fill in or
> remove further "title" options to/from the input line, and i can
> re-open it any time.
> 
> * whenever i right-click into the plot, i get a menu that says "set
> label", "set arrow", plus whatever fits at the location.

YES! 

And further: click an existing label or arrow,
and be able to edit or move it.

> 
> * e.g. when the cursor is on the legend, i can change the "set key"
> options, or on an individual key, i get to change the plot colour,
> linewidth, key text, ...

YES!

> 
> * clicking on the axis labels lets me change the text, etc.
> 
> * possibility to drag the legend to another position where it
> doesn´t collide with my data.
> 
> * upon editing labels, there is a dropdown list of available fonts,
> and possibly one that inserts symbols as utf-8 characters.

YES!

> 
> * a "set grid" button (oh wait, wxt already has that ;-) )
> 

It does, but something that would guide the casual
user through tics and tic labels would be welcome!

> ....
> 
> This would help immensely in optically tuning plots, while still all
> the versatility of old-school gp-scripting is retained.
> 
> Such an interactive terminal could then (later) also allow adding
> further plots , changing the "using" statement, plot style, etc., to
> the point where it becomes an "Origin" clone, only one that is
> easily script- and programmable. Inline @heredata could be imported,
> sorted, edited in additional spreadsheet windows, without ever
> breaking backward compatibility.
> 
> Looking a few years into the future,
> 
>   Karl
> 
> 
> P.S. It should optionally be possible to strip the saved script from
> all settings that were not changed from the default/not used in the
> present plot, so it can easily be edited and re-used. (That´d be a
> cool feature also without an interactive terminal.)