Re: new command: raise

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:06, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I think the "set term ..." approach is better, but there
> could be some confusion about it.  Typing
>
> set term x11 100
>
> will change the current plot to 100.  But should
>=09 set term x11 105 raise
> actually change the current plot number, or should
> it just raise that plot (if it exists) and not change the plot?

The latter, definitely.
And now that I look, I see that your earlier patch does not
behave this way.  But it ought to.
=09set term x11 101 close
should close window 101 but leave the current window
unchanged.  Do you want to make that change, or should I?

> I tend to use the Gnome desktop panel for raising
> the windows.  (The problem is if one starts to get too
> many plots open it is difficult to remember in which
> order they came and the plot number never seems
> to appear in the little panel icon because it is "Gnuplot #"

That sounds like a bug in Gnome.  I don't think we should
worry about modifying gnuplot just to correct for poor
window managers.   KDE and CDE both show the plot title
correctly in the corresponding window icon.
(Let the flamewars begin :-)

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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