Re: x11.trm terminal options

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>>#if NOT_PROCESS_IF_DUPLICATION
>>
>Let's not proliferate conditional code.  Go for one or the
>other (error or warning).
>

I'd vote for error then simply because that is
the way "plot" and "splot" behave.  Nothing
is done if you don't have valid syntax.

>>So it works fine.  But I recall something now.  I believe there
>>was a discussion a while back about the ability to close a
>>single X11 graph from the command line.  So perhaps if both
>>a "reset" and a number appear in the options, only the plot
>>associated with that number could be closed.  Right now it
>>will reset the whole thing (i.e., close all windows) and then
>>switch to plot number.  How does that sound?
>>    
>>
>
>I think that should be a separate command.  "reset" and
>"close" do not mean the same thing to me.
>

So you would want a syntax

set term x11 close 5

(or set term x11 5 close is the equivalent)

?  That seems just fine to me and it makes
sense too.  It is just adding one more case
in the case statement.  Easy.

>I did try to add that feature a while ago, but it turned out to
>be harder than it sounded at first blush.  So it remains on the
>list of things that would be nice but are non-trivial.
>

It did take a while to figure out exactly where to
put the code, but after that not bad.  From gplt_x11's
perspective it would be one line of code to close
the window in question.  That would effectively
wipe out any attributes to that window.  The next
time the user plots to that window, the window's
attributes will have been reset.  I could add a code
word 'C' or 'c' (not used, surprisingly) inside
gplt_x11.c.

Dan

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