How to pause until plot window closed?
Grant Edwards
manipulate the plot using the mouse (zoom, unzoom, etc.), and I
can't figure out how to do that.
gnuplot <<EOF
plot "$$tmp.dat" with points
pause -1
EOF
That exits immediately.
If I replace the -1 with a large number (say, 9999), then the
plot window is unresponsive. If I do a "pause mouse key", then
the plot window closes when the user tries to un-zoom. If I do
"gnuplot -persist" zooming with the mouse doesn't work.
How do I wait until the plot window closes?
Alternatively, how do I just pause forever so that the user can
kill the process with a SIGINT when he's done?
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mer...@chauvet.bmsc.washington.edu
Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
>I want a shell script to plot a file and then allow the user to
>manipulate the plot using the mouse (zoom, unzoom, etc.), and I
>can't figure out how to do that.
>
> gnuplot <<EOF
> plot "$$tmp.dat" with points
> pause -1
> EOF
>
>That exits immediately.
>
>If I replace the -1 with a large number (say, 9999), then the
>plot window is unresponsive. If I do a "pause mouse key", then
>the plot window closes when the user tries to un-zoom.
Make a separate subroutine file that loops on 'pause mouse key'.
pause mouse key
if (MOUSE_KEY != 27) reread
The call it from the main script
print "Hit <esc> to exit"
load "loop_til_escape"
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Ethan A Merritt
Grant Edwards
I tried that, and it doesn't work. It appears to eat all of
the keypresses, so things like pressing "u" to unzoom don't
work. Here's the rather ugly kludge I came up with:
#!/bin/bash
(cat<<EOF
plot sin(x)
pause -1 "press Ctrl-D to exit"
EOF
cat /dev/tty) | gnuplot
I don't like it much, but it works.
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Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
>On 2008-07-22, mer...@chauvet.bmsc.washington.edu <mer...@chauvet.bmsc.washington.edu> wrote:
>> In article <ns6dnf9ElM-yYhjV...@posted.visi>,
>> Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
>>>I want a shell script to plot a file and then allow the user to
>>>manipulate the plot using the mouse (zoom, unzoom, etc.), and I
>>>can't figure out how to do that.
>>>
>>> gnuplot <<EOF
>>> plot "$$tmp.dat" with points
>>> pause -1
>>> EOF
>>>
>>>That exits immediately.
>>>
>>>If I replace the -1 with a large number (say, 9999), then the
>>>plot window is unresponsive. If I do a "pause mouse key", then
>>>the plot window closes when the user tries to un-zoom.
>>
>> Make a separate subroutine file that loops on 'pause mouse key'.
>>
>> pause mouse key
>> if (MOUSE_KEY != 27) reread
>>
>> The call it from the main script
>>
>> print "Hit <esc> to exit"
>> load "loop_til_escape"
>
>I tried that, and it doesn't work. It appears to eat all of
>the keypresses, so things like pressing "u" to unzoom don't
>work. Here's the rather ugly kludge I came up with:
Ah. I misunderstood the requirements. Then you want
... oops, wait a moment,
... sigh, ...there's a bug.
well, after applying the 1 line fix below, you can simply say
pause mouse button1
leaving normal response to keys and mouse buttons 2 and 3.
That gives you zooming (button 3) and n/p/u hotkeys as usual.
The pause returns only when you click button1.
[tested on x11 and wxt; no guarantee about windows]
--- gnuplot-old/src/mouse.c 2008-07-21 13:10:43.000000000 -0700
+++ gnuplot-new/src/mouse.c 2008-07-22 13:02:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ event_buttonpress(struct gp_event_t *ge)
/* not bound in 2d graphs */
} else if (3 == b &&
(!replot_disabled || refresh_ok) /* Use refresh if available */
- && !(paused_for_mouse & PAUSE_CLICK)) {
+ && !(paused_for_mouse & PAUSE_BUTTON3)) {
/* start zoom; but ignore it when
* - replot is disabled, e.g. with inline data, or
* - during 'pause mouse'
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Ethan A Merritt