To summarize my contribution to this thread so far, I think it is important that interactivity should work consistently between all our interactive devices following what is done for the xwin device, and I have also proved we are very far from that goal now to the point that all interactive devices other than xwin that I have tried do not work correctly for the -xor mode of example 1, example 20, or many of the special interactive "p" examples that are available for octave.
But my further thought today is it is going to take a lot of work for each interactive device developer to figure out the xwin interactive paradigm and mimic it for their own device so why not instead move the mouse button, keystroke, and crosshairs part of the xwin logic to a central function residing in libplplot instead that can be used by every interactive device? That central function would use code directly from xwin.c for the X case or the equivalent Windows-based code for the Windows case starting with what Arjen has currently implemented in wingcc.c. This centralized approach automatically satisfies the above consistency goal and should be a lot less effort than every developer of an interactive device driver having to deal with this issue. Anyhow, I hope this idea inspires a volunteer here to delve deeply into the xwin code and equivalent wingcc.c code to see what would be required to centralize interactive handling of mouse button events, keystroke events, and crosshairs, and then implement that to give us consistent rich interactivity capabilities for all our X-based and Windows-based interactive devices. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
