From graphics-request at octave dot org Thu Jun 10 05:10:01 2004
Subject: Re: Visualisation applications and Octave.
From: Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics dot muni dot cz>
To: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
cc: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>, <graphics@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:03:29 +0200 (CEST)

> > >A few months ago I posted a patch to the maintainers list which allows for
> > >removing all the gnuplot-related code from core Octave, while the interface
> > >remains at least 90% compatible. I promised John to work on the patch a
> > >little more (I had some strange bugs with gnuplot 4.0), but haven't had the
> > >time and interest lately.
> >
> > What kind of strangeness are you experiencing in 4.0?  I've not run 4.0
> > from any of the binaries, but the CVS version seems to run fine with 4.0.
>
> The bugs were only present in my new gnuplot interface, which is not in the
> CVS (yet). Mostly the problem is that I could not get the mouse to work.

I use gnuplot mousing in Octave for several years already, and it works
OK. Which platform do you have a problem on?


Maybe you mean the following FAQ, http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html:

5.6 Mouse in my interactive terminal does not work

If your mouse is not working, try to hit 'm' in the interactive terminal to
switch mousing on/off.

If it still does not run, then either gnuplot has not been configured or
compiled with mouse support, or you have not properly installed it, or
running an older version of gnuplot (check your PATH).

If your gnuplot is running as the plotting engine of Octave under X11, then
please put gset mouse into your $HOME/.octaverc. According to gnuplot's help
x11, gnuplot under x11 running through a pipe needs set mouse to be executed
before launching the x11 plot window.

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