Re: [Gnuplot-info] Suggestion

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, ccharron1 wrote:

> I'm discovering gnuplot and I'm trying to use it to do some 3D-graph
> representation of data (real x, y and z graph). As my data are in an excel
> sheet, it would be very usefull if gnuplot would have an option to import
> directly the data from an excel file, as a command in a GUI. 

I don't think that'll happen.  If you have data stuck in the bowels of
some Excel file, it's the duty of Excel and you to get it out of there,
not gnuplot's.  And, luckily, it can do it: you can export the data you
have to a CSV file, and gnuplot will be able to read it.

> To be able to select the data file directly from the GUI, without having
> to write the name in the command line windows would be nice.

It is nice --- you can do it right now.  If it *is* a data file, rather
than some Excel blob, that is.

> Are you developping a preference setting to choose the language of
> Gnuplot ?

No.  But maybe I just didn't understand that question.  What "language of
gnuplot" to you want to make preference-settable there?  gnuplot uses
essentially only one language, and that only to write documentation in and
derive keywords from.   Neither of which seems to be what you're asking
about.  So: what kind of change do you have in mind there?

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.