pause mouse on windows-wxt - Re: Windows ginput function

[Petr Mikulik]

> http://www.geocities.jp/tmoctwin/
> Using gnuplot 4.3 (cvs) on MSVC-octave (First upload Mar. 16, 2008) (modified Mar. 26, 2008)
> 
> I am a gnuplot lover so that I have been strugling how to realize to mouse 
> zooming on octave for windows which is not cygwin native. On the cygwin, 
> it is very easy to implement by Ethan (merritt at u.washington.edu) of an 
> experimental revise on gnuplot 4.3(cvs) to realize mouse zooming on the 
> volite date from pipe.

The trouble is that pgnuplot cannot pass the binary data. Cannot this be 
fixed easily?

> However it is implemeted on the only gnuplot 4.3 (cvs).  So that I have decided to show the way how to
> use the the gnuplot 4.3 on cygwin with the least resourses on the MSVC-octave.  This is introduced on
> my web.  
> 
> Please wait Michael will come back from the vacation.  As I wrote prviously, perhaps  he will fix the
> current issue to be solved by upgrading gnuplot to be 4.2.3.
> As Ethan stated that gnuplot 4.2.3 does not realize mouse zooming.
> Ethan also stated whether  the next official (not cvs) gnuplot will implement the mouse zooming the 
> volatile data from pipe depends on how octave people need the implemataion of mouse zooming.

There are two independent things:
- gnuplot 4.2.x does not allow mousing with volatile data; the new command 
  "refresh" was added to 4.3(cvs) that does it
- pgnuplot in no version of gnuplot can pass binary data (no fix is 
  available)


Michael has managed to have working console, thus not GUI, version of 
gnuplot for Octave. He calls it pgnuplot. I think this matter should be 
discussed on the gnuplot mailing list:

- this definitely needed unpublished patches into gnuplot source code

- this kind of gnuplot should be compilable by any supported Windows 
  makefile, e.g. mingw or cygwin

- I think this executable could be called gnuplot, as this is the name of 
  the console application everywhere.
  Wow, from the console point of view, he managed to get the Windows 
  version of gnuplot to be similar to the OS/2 version ages ago, great!

  Well, that's great except for strings with accents, because the MS 
  stupidity uses different font encodings in console and in GUI programs
  (CP1250 vs CP850/CP852).

- Then, for Windows, there are wgnuplot, pgnuplot, gnuplot-cygwin-CLI-X11
  and gnuplot-win-CLI :-(
  Maybe it would be possible to join both CLI executables into a single one? 
  That's what the OS/2 version of gnuplot supports.

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Petr Mikulik