Re: [Gnuplot-info] SVG terminal "mousing" option causes "background" colour not to work

[Daniel B. <dbo...@gm...>]

On 7 February 2018 at 18:17, Ethan A Merritt <eam...@gm...> wrote:

> > Now add "mousing" to the "set terminal" line.
> >
> > That results in the background being lost, so everything is white on
> white,
> > and thus invisible.
>
> Yes. That seems to be a bug.
>
> > It looks like the code that creates the mousing bounding box
> > unconditionally sets a white rectangle with a black stroke, thus
> > overridding or hiding the background the user wants.
>
> Other way around I think.  If you set a background color then
> normally the plot output begins with a filled rectangle of that color.
> However if you select "standalone mousing" the program starts the
> output with a copy of the mousing code and omits the filled background
> rectangle.
>
> > Is this bugworthy, or is there a reason that it has to be this way?
>
> According to the code, it was intentional.  But quick testing does
> not show any obvious problem so I am not sure why that was.
> I will investigate further.
>

Thanks for that!


> I would really like to be able to render white (and other colours) on
> > black, as I prefer "inverted" colours - but I also want to be able to use
> > mousing in my reports. At present, it doesn't look like I can have both.
>
> Sure you can. No problem.
> You can always include a filled background rectangle as a separate
> command.  This should work independent of anything else:
>
>     set obj 1 rectangle from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 behind
>     set obj 1 fillstyle solid fillcolor "black"
>

Ta again - I found others suggesting this method shortly after posting.
It'll probably be fine for now, at least since you revealed the secrets of
the key title textcolor(s). :D