Re: right-click doing line toggle on QT

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On 25/01/16 19:07, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Monday, 25 January, 2016 13:21:55 pl...@pi... wrote:
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>  > Hi,
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>  > a minor but persistently annoying bug on gnuplot-qt ( as provided by
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>  > Fedora 23 ) :
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>  > On the qt build a right mouse click in the plot area to select a zoom
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>  > area is also triggering the line visibility toggle if it happens on the
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>  > legend part of the graph. This is very annoying since it hides the line
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>  > you may be trying to zoom on making it impossible to accurately choose
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>  > the zoom area.
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>  > Clearly this feature should be restricted to left-mouse clicks. This is
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>  > the case in wxt , so I presume that it's an error.
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> Good point. (Easy to fix, too :-)
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>  > In passing I also report that when qt terminal toggles a line the legend
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>  > gets a mid-grey background colour that is very ugly. Presumably someone
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>  > thought it could indicated a non-visible line.
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>  > I would submit that it just makes a visual mess of the graph and is not
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>  > even helpful since it renders the legend pretty much visible anyway.
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> Did you mean to say "invisible"?
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> It looks OK to me, but I suppose tastes and computer displays vary.

Yes: invisible, sorry.

As I said it looks more reasonable in wxt.  QT is way too dark and makes 
it illegible ( on my monitor ) and an ugly dark block.    Colour 
inconsistencies between terminals is already a bit of a problem.
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>  > Same on wxt but legible.. Probably grey too dark on qt.
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>  > I seem to recall that it was the line sample in the legend that got
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>  > turned off along with the line. This communicates the same information
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>  > in an aesthetically more acceptable manner, IMO.
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> Yeah, but if you toggle off the line sample there is nothing to
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> click on any more. How would you toggle it back on again?
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> There would have to be some other clickable placeholder.


No, the legend text itself is also clickable. It may make more sense if 
the line in the legend went 'hidden' as well ;)   IIRC that's what the 
SVG terminal mouse action  does.

Peter

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> Ethan
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