Re: new command: raise

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

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 00:35, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> Look this way: Origin and similar graph apps have a common "desktop" fo=
r
> all windows, so raising Origin will raise its desktop with all windows.

I see.  If you want this kind of behaviour from gnuplot under X11, then
I think what you really want is not a new command-line option but instead
a new "master window" of some sort that has an associated X-event
handler for expose+focus events.  When this window is raised, then the
event handler would go through the list of all other gnuplot-associated
windows and raise them too.  You could, for example, make this master
window a small always-on-top icon, and click on it to pop up all the othe=
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That should be possible, I think;  x11.trm would spawn off this extra=20
process at the same time it spawns the first instance of gnuplot_x11.=20

To be honest, I dislike like that behaviour of programs whether
under MSWin or under X.  The application program almost never knows
better than I do as to which windows I would like to have on top.
But it does seem to be common.

> Most graphical apps have "Tile" and "Cascade" functions.

??  Sorry, I am not familiar with these.  What do these do?

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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