From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  2 21:40:19 1996
Subject: Re: Matlab ginput
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:40:02 -0600

On  3-Dec-1996, Ted Harding <Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk> wrote:

: With regard to the other query from Jay St Pieere ("I wonder how hard it
: would be to make a modification to the gnuplot source code to allow it to
: support a ginput interface"), my guess is that this might be
: possible.

Yes.  For an example of something like this, you might look at
ftp://ftp.ma.utexas.edu/pub/mzou/XPLOT.tgz.  I'm not suggesting that
this is the right thing for Octave, just that modifying gnuplot to
have a more extensive X interface is certainly possible.

: Therefore I warmly welcome John's announced intention to develop octave
: graphics in a new direction, and will be happy to help as best I
: can.

Anyone who is interested in discussing implementation details of new
graphics and GUI tools for Octave is welcome to join a mailing list
that I have set up for that purpose.  Just send me mail to join.

Thanks,

jwe