closeplot

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Nov-2003, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:

| I am using gnuplot 3.8 with octave. The main reason are the great 
| interactive mouse functions. In order to make them work, I have to issue 
| "gset mouse" when octave starts up (easy using the ~/.octaverc file).
| 
| However, when I use the closeplot and then issue another plot command, a 
| new gnuplot window apears without the mouse functions. I can work around 
| this by rememberign to issue "gset mouse" before the new gnuplot window 
| apears i.e.
| 
|  > closeplot;
|  > gset mouse
|  > plot(1:10)
| 
| is ok, but I keep forgetting the gset command :)
| 
| it is of course possible(?) to redefine the closeplot command so that it 
| issues the gset mouse command, but is there a better way ?

I can't think of a way to do what you want with current versions of
Octave.  Perhaps we need to provide a way for users to install a
function that is called by closeplot to allow for things like this?

jwe



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