Windows ginput function [Was: fopen doesn't return when opening a fifo!!]

[David Bateman]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, David Bateman
> <David.Bateman at motorola.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Yeah, I figured that out, and the popen2 code is in the repository and
>>  seems to work, though I don't think its tested much under windows.. The
>>  remaining issue is the fact that the mouse support in the wxt terminal
>>  under Windows seems to be broken, though Petr tells me it appears to
>>  work under linux (how with wine?). The problem is independent of Octave
>>  and can be seen by launching gnuplot and typing
>>
>>  plot sin(x)
>>  pause mouse any
>>
>>  and then you can't come back to the prompt as the wxt terminal is not
>>  returning the mouse presses. You need this to get the ginput, gtext and
>>  waitforbutton code that is in the 3.1.x tree and octave-forge for the
>>  3.0 tree working..
>>     
>
> It works now. Gnuplot patch on octave-forge updated.
> (Note: I only looked at wxt terminal, I didn't try with plain 'win' terminal).
>
> Michael.
>
>   
Damn that was quick.. Ok one fewer points that need addressing for the
next octave-forge release.

D.


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