waitforbuttonpress patch install

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:49 PM, David Bateman wrote:
> Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Nose Nada wrote:
>>> Hello there! I was trying to use the function 'waitforbuttonpress'
>>> in Octave 3.0 (running on Fedora 8) but the function is not
>>> implemented yet in this distribution. However, I found a recent
>>> thread (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-March/005684.html
>>> ) where a patch for this function has been developed (https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/attachments/20080331/f0ffbe59/attachment-0001.ksh
>>> ) . How can I install this patch in order to use waitforbuttonpress
>>> in my code? I look forward to hear from you. Thanks in advance. Omar
>>> View this message in context: waitforbuttonpress patch install
>>> Sent from the Octave - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>> If you up to building octave from its sources, you can do that.
>> Instructions are at the link below.
>>
>> 	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
>>
>> If you're using Debian, you may be able to put together a local
>> package that uses the development sources.
>>
>> I'm not a Linux user, but have done the same for Mac OSX using Fink's
>> package management system (which descends from Debian).
>>
>> Ben
>
>
> Its only in the 3.1.x tree in the octave repository. Get it instead
> (together with ginput.m and maybe gtext.m) from the ocatve-forge SVN
> whether the versions are compatible with Octave 3.0.0. Note this
> currently doesn't work on the wxt terminal on Windows due to a bug in
> that terminal in gnuplot. It also doesn't work with the aqua  
> terminal of
> MacOS as that terminal doesn't yet support mousing at all.
>
> D.

Regarding "the 3.1x tree", this the same as the "default" mercurial  
branch, correct?

Ben