Re: plot and image demos (growing window)

[Ben Abbott]

On May 29, 2009, at 10:55 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 29-May-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | The only way would be to ...
> |
> | (1) get the window size
> | (2) set mouse
> | (3) get the window size
> | (4) unset mouse
> | (5) get the window size
> | (6) Determine if the mouse was originally set or unset
> | (7) Return the mouse to its original state
> |
> | Such an implementation is kludgy :-(
> |
> | However the greater difficulty is how to obtain the x11 window
> | position and size reliably for Unix and Windows.
>
> I don't think it is worth trying to fix this problem.  For one thing,
> it seems to go away if you use the wxt terminal.  What about the aqua
> terminal?
>
> jwe

This problem is unique to x11. Regarding aqua, the placement of  
ticklabels and axislabels is more _liberal_ than for other terminals.  
Thus, the xlabel is often partially cut off, and the title is often  
not visible at all :-(

However, to be clear the method described above will *not* fix the  
current growing window problem. However, it would allow Octave to  
detect the window size for x11.  I have a local solution that does  
this, but it won't work reliably until a property listener is in place  
for units conversion.

Ben