Re: graphics-branch in CVS

[Timothee Lecomte]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  8-Dec-2006, Timothée Lecomte wrote:
>
> | Oh, I thought octave was using a two-way pipe,
>
> No, we just use popen.
>
> | as it was pointed out
> | some time ago to get feedback from a click on the plot window.
>
> The function in Octave Forge that does that appears to use some tricky
> code that tries to locate the plot window and read the position of the
> mouse clicks and then turn that into plot coordinates (please correct
> me if this is not accurate).
>
> jwe

There is a ginput.m file to do that using a bidirectional pipe on 
http://gnuplot.info/links.html . The file is in the following archive:
http://gnuplot.info/files/ginput_gp41_1.zip

I hope it can help.

Best regards,

Timothée