Re: force_in_range ?

[Konstantinos Poulios]

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> søn, 06 02 2011 kl. 09:05 -0500, skrev Ben Abbott:
>> On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:40 PM, logari81 wrote:
>>
>> > Btw, I have noticed that the function "force_in_range" is not used
>> > anywhere. May I check in a patch removing it?
>>
>> It is possible this is part of some unfinished work. This function was part 
>> of the changeeset below.
>>
>>       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ee8a035f3997
>>
>> Perhaps Shai and/or Soren (others?) can tell us what this was intended for.
>
> I introduced this function for use when panning with the mouse. I wanted
> to ensure that you could not pan outside the limits of the data. My
> original patch had this behaviour, but a later patch removed it.
> Personally, I liked that you could not pan outside the data limits, but
> I guess others disagreed :-(
>
> Søren
>
>

btw, panning seems to be broken for logarithmic axes, did it use to work before?

Kostas