[OctDev] Re: ginput

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

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

It would be nice to replace those routines written in C by this .m solution 
using the mousing gnuplot features directly.

>> I doubt it will work on cygwin since as of last year mkfifo was not 
>> supported.  Can a cygwin user please try it?

I remember OS/2 had an equivalent of opening a file with a name like
"//pipe/blabla"; I guess Windows could have a similar possibility?

>> The aqua term does not support mouse.  Any idea how much work it would be 
>> to add it?
>> 
>> Anyone have better luck with their systems?

Why X11 terminal does not work with mousing?

I guess the native Mac terminal is AquaTerm
   http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net/
   http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/aquaterm/adapters/gnuplot/

have a look there if it is mousing, and if not, please contact the author 
and express your wish.

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