On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Liam Groener wrote:
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> On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
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>> Hello again,
>>
>> I am having some issues with ginput working properly. My system uses:
>>
>> G N U P L O T
>> Version 4.4 patchlevel 3
>> last modified March 2011
>> System: Darwin 10.7.3
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>> GNU Octave, version 3.4.2
>>
>> I noted some issues with ginput already posted on the help forum but the posts are already between 1 and 2 years old and I assume that the patches have already been included in the latest release, which I have.
>>
>> If I input, for example,
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>> axis(1:4);
>> [gx gy gbutton] = ginput(1)
>>
>> I don't get a chance to make any input via the mouse. Instead I get the following output and the script ends:
>>
>> gx = 0
>> gy = 0
>> gbutton = -1
>>
>>
>> Is tehre some other thing that I need to enable in order to use ginput correctly?
>>
> On OS X, at least, I think you have to use the fltk backend for ginput to work. Try typing:
> graphics_toolkit fltk
> figure
> and then repeat your commands.