Re: terminals_with_size

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--- rik
> On 09/14/2016 06:44 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >> From: Mike Miller 
> > <
> >> To: Rik 
> >> Cc: Tatsuro MATSUOKA ; John W. Eaton ; Octave-Maintainers 
> >> Date: 2016/9/15, Thu 10:17
> >> Subject: Re: terminals_with_size
> >>
> >> I notice that
> >>
> >>   figure ("position", [0, 0, 1000, 200])
> >>
> >> works when using GNUTERM=x11, but not when GNUTERM=qt. This may have
> >> something to do with that.
> >
> > In __gnuplot_drawnow__.m
> > Around line 223
> >
> >  if (strcmp (term, "x11") || strcmpi (term, "windows"))
> >             ## X11/Windows allows the window to be positioned as well.
> >             units = get (0, "units");
> >             unwind_protect
> >
> > position option is used for x11 and windows.
> > qt supports position option.
> > But wxt supports position option since gnuplot 4.6.4.
> >
> > Now minimum requirement of gnuplot is 4.4 so that if we implement this for 
> > wxt terminal, version check is required.
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> Tatsuro,
> 
> My goal was only to change Octave to require a minimum version of gnuplot 4.4.
> 
> What you propose sounds good, but also less like a bug fix and more like a
> feature request.  It would be nice if Octave took advantage of the
> additional capabilities of wxt that were introduced in 4.6.4.  Why don't
> you file a Feature Request on Savannah for this.  The implementation should
> be simple, add another feature in __gnuplot_has_feature__ and then check
> for it in __gnuplot_drawnow__ to see if the positioning code can be used. 
> If you or someone else uploads a changeset there is still time to get this
> feature in for the 4.2.0 release.
> 
> --Rik
ok I will do it afterwards.
Thanks

Tatsuro