Re: interactive plotting functionality

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Sun, 12/28/08, Thomas Treichl <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Thomas Treichl <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: interactive plotting functionality
> To: "Dan Mennitt" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "GNU Octave" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 11:53 AM
> Dan Mennitt schrieb:
> > ok good news.  I went straight to step six and
> rotation works as it 
> > should.  To test if things were working, I had been
> making a 2D plot and 
> > trying to zoom in by well, trying many things
> including holding the left 
> > or right mouse button to draw a box.  No luck, how do
> you zoom in?  I 
> > tried adding, "set mouse" to my .gnuplot
> file to no avail.  By the way, 
> > the result of getenv("GNUTERM") is a blank
> ans =, although X11, not 
> > aquaterm is what executes and
> "__gnuplot_version__" gives "ans = 4.2"
> as 
> > expected. 
> 
> Can you try starting Gnuplot 4.2.3 (I expect you have
> Gnuplot.app in 
> /Applications ?) with the following line
> 
>    GNUTERM=x11
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot
> 
> then in Gnuplot.app type a command, eg.
> 
>    plot sin (x)
> 
> for me zooming works with the right mouse button (click 1
> for upper-left, click 
> 2 for lower-right zoom window) or if I use the key-button
> combination 
> <Apple-key>-(left-mouse-button). Press button
> 'u' for unzoom.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>    Thomas
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In order to have mouse-controlled zooming one has to use gnuplot-4.3* to
be found here: http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/ .

Regards,
  Sergei.