Re: Picking coordinates off a plot

[Joao Cardoso]

On Friday 16 November 2001 09:50, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
| On 16/11/01 08:43, Ted Harding wrote:
| > Can someone who knows, give the status of
| > "alternative" graphics for octave, which in
| > particular allow the coordinates of a point in
| > a plot display to be ascertained by pointing
| > and clicking with the mouse?
|
| The CVS-versions of gnuplot (when compiled with the mouse option) support
| zooming with a mouse and show the coordinates of the mouse on the
| gnuplot window.
|
| One alternative plotting program I know of is grace and the Octave
| bindings by Jean-Marc Valin, which were posted to Octave sources in about
| 1999. The postscript output quality of grace is superior to gnuplot (IMHO)
| so it is worth checking out, though I remember having to tweak the Octave
| bindings a bit to get it working.
|
| And of course there's also pgplot.

And of course plplot_octave, http://merlin.inescn.pt/~qual/plplot_octave (or 
http://www.fe.up.pt/~jcard/software/plplot_octave)

Joao

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