support for advanced gnuplot features (was: Plotting semi-trasnparent patches?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 10:09AM, "John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
>On 29-Jan-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| If the event it is sensible to have gnuplot pass back each figure's  
>| window x11 id (is it called that?), it should be possible for to  
>| detect movements of the windows by the use and to reflect that in the  
>| properties.
>| 
>| Is that a sensible thing to do?
>| 
>| ... and does anyone know enough about x11 to explain how that should  
>| be implemented?
>
>I think the simplest thing would be to query the window's geometry.
>Maybe that could be limited to any time we need to get the position
>property for the figure window.  But first you need to be able to get
>the window id, or whatever is needed to get the geometry of the window
>back from gnuplot.  Is that possible, or will it require changes to
>gnuplot?
>
>jwe
>

Ethan Merrit and I discussed doing this some weeks ago. You can follow the short discussion below.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=A8652982-806C-405D-A172-4842D6E9A076%40mac.com&forum_name=gnuplot-beta

It appears to me that some change to gnuplot will be needed, but I'm not certain of that.

Ben