[Kst] Events and historical data

[Barth Netterfield]

This is an interesting problem!

Is anyone aware of anyone using events other than the javascript hooks?

cbn

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 08:49, George Staikos wrote:
>    I've been getting requests to "fix" events in Kst when used with
> historical data.  The problem is that we don't really support this at all. 
> How should we deal with it?  How often should an event trigger, when should
> it trigger, and which types of actions should happen when scrolling data? 
> What would the cut-off point be? (ie: right-edge, left-edge, centre,
> scroll-direction-edge, user-defined, other?)  What do we do with
> Y-scrolling?  For that matter, how do we deal with plots that have multiple
> Y for a given X?  It almost seems to me that this concept begs for a
> "cursor".
>
>    Points of interest:  People seem to be using the scripting hooks but I
> haven't seen anyone using the other types of event actions.  Maybe we
> should focus on this as the common case.  It seems more useful to me
> anyway.