Re: interactively modifying a "1d" plot with the mouse?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:31 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  8-Jan-2009, Francesco Potortì wrote:
>
> | >I think that Octave sends plotting output to gnuplot, aquaterm, and
> | >the other plotting backends, but does not read from them.
> |
> | In fact, the ginput() function return the coordinates of the point where
> | the mouse is clicked.  One could write a function using that input to
> | modify the data...
>
> The ginput function is a bit of a kluge.  It doesn't work when using
> gnuplot with Octave on Windows, for example.

IIRC, it used to work under Windows as well. At least with the development
code. I don't remember if it worked for the 3.0.x branch.

Michael.