Re: Octave plot window input focus

[Michael Godfrey]

On 02/03/2010 10:22 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

On 02/03/2010 10:07 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:

It's certainly not advisable to make direct X11 calls in octave which
is supposed to run on windows ....

I'm not sure if you can return the focus to the octave window in
general, since the octave process usually does not "own" the windows
in which the command line lives -- this is just some random terminal.
In an IDE (like matlab's), where the terminal & the figure window
belong to the same process, managing these focus switches would be
trivial.

If you run matlab w/o an IDE, from a terminal, will it still switch
focus from the figure to the terminal?

Shai
  

I tried matlab -nodesktop.  Focus goes to plot window. Ugh.

Michael

The best I can think of now is a separate X11 program which monitors events on the
command window and grabs focus back whenever it is moved by a window create
event.  It may be a bit tricky to distinguish intended moves (by mouse click for example).
This program could be (optionally) started when octave is started in an X11 environment.

Any better ideas?

Michael