From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  2 15:24:23 1996
Subject: Re: Matlab ginput
From: "Jay A. St. Pierre" <Jay dot St dot Pierre at Colorado dot EDU>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:24:21 -0700 (MST)

On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, John W. Eaton wrote:

> I am planning to focus on graphics and GUI stuff for 2.1 and am
> currently leaning toward plplot and Tcl/Tk, though I don't want Octave
> to depend on either.  I am hoping to make it possible for people to
> use whatever graphics and GUI tools they prefer, just by writing a
> relatively small amount of C++ code.

I wonder how hard it would be to make a modification to the gnuplot
source code to allow it to support a ginput interface.  Having never
looked at the gnuplot source in any detail, I don't know.  Has anybody
ever mentioned this to the primary maintainer of gnuplot?

-Jay