Re: new command: raise

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

Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >>   Thus, on any OS, there is no way to find which gnuplot terminal
> >> window belongs to which gnuplot console instance.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > I'm not sure the application running
> >gnuplot through a pipe couldn't just send a GUI event to the window
> >manager or the main gnuplot window to raise the gnuplot window and all
> > of its children

Dan Sebald wrote:
> there would be a connection made between
> the app and the window, where gnuplot is a liason to help make
> the connection but then is removed from the picture.

Let me clarify Dan's point.   There are several conditions under
which the gnuplot core will close down its connection to the
outboard driver (gnuplot_x11), and later open a new connection
to a new instance of gnuplot_x11 if a new 'set term x11' command
is received.   In this case you have X11 terminal windows on the
screen which are no longer connected to the controlling gnuplot
terminal session at all.  The only way to interact with these windows
is via the mouse or via the window manager.  No command from the
gnuplot core can talk to them, or to the gnuplot_x11 instance that
is controlling them.

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
Biomolecular Structure Center Box 357742
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195