From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Nov 16 03:50:49 2001
Subject: Re: Picking coordinates off a plot
From: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
To: Ted Harding <Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:50:44 +0200

On 16/11/01 08:43, Ted Harding wrote:
> Can someone who knows, give the status of
> "alternative" graphics for octave, which in
> particular allow the coordinates of a point in
> a plot display to be ascertained by pointing
> and clicking with the mouse?

The CVS-versions of gnuplot (when compiled with the mouse option) support
zooming with a mouse and show the coordinates of the mouse on the
gnuplot window.

One alternative plotting program I know of is grace and the Octave
bindings by Jean-Marc Valin, which were posted to Octave sources in about
1999. The postscript output quality of grace is superior to gnuplot (IMHO)
so it is worth checking out, though I remember having to tweak the Octave
bindings a bit to get it working.

And of course there's also pgplot.

Teemu



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