[OctDev] ginput

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to get Petr Mikulik's ginput to work instead of the 
X11-based ginput hack on octave-forge.

See section "Links" => "Programming interfaces - bidirectional 
interaction":

     http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/links.html

Petr's function is cleaner than the current gget+ginput+grab.cc code, 
and it should work on any terminal with mouse support rather than just 
X11. The current gget is the source of too many support requests.

Unix:
>
> I'm assuming it works on X11 for Linux since that is where it was 
> developed, and for unix+x11 systems.  I haven't tested it.

Cygwin:

> I doubt it will work on cygwin since as of last year mkfifo was not 
> supported.  Can a cygwin user please try it?
>
> Assuming it does not work, maybe the gget code could be modified to 
> use the new input mouse command.
>
> Does it only work on X11?  Or does it also work with the Windows 
> native terminal?

OS X:

> The aqua term does not support mouse.  Any idea how much work it would 
> be to add it?
>
> I was unable to get mouse working on X11 using the 4.0.0 build at 
> sourceforge.  It works directly from gnuplot, but __gnuplot_raw__("set 
> mouse\r") doesn't work from Octave.
>
> Anyone have better luck with their systems?


Thanks,

- Paul