gnuplot documentation

59 PAUSE gnuplot 4.3 63
load ’work.gnu’
load "func.dat"
load "< loadfile_generator.sh"
The load command is performed implicitly on any file names given as arguments to gnuplot. These
are loaded in the order specified, and then gnuplot exits.
58 Lower
Syntax:
lower {plot_window_nb}
The lower command lowers (opposite to raise) plot window(s) associated with the interactive terminal
of your gnuplot session, i.e. pm, win, wxt or x11. It puts the plot window to bottom in the z-order
windows stack of the window manager of your desktop.
As x11 and wxt support multiple plot windows, then by default they lower these windows in descending
order of most recently created on top to the least recently created on bottom. If a plot number is supplied
as an optional parameter, only the associated plot window will be lowered if it exists.
The optional parameter is ignored for single plot-window terminals, i.e. pm and win.
59 Pause
The pause command displays any text associated with the command and then waits a specified amount
of time or until the carriage return is pressed. pause is especially useful in conjunction with load files.
Syntax:
pause {""}
pause mouse {}{, } {""}
may be any constant or expression. Choosing -1 will wait until a carriage return is hit, zero (0)
won’t pause at all, and a positive number will wait the specified number of seconds. The time is rounded
to an integer number of seconds if subsecond time resolution is not supported by the given platform.
pause 0 is synonymous with print.
If the current terminal supports mousing, then pause mouse will terminate on either a mouse click or
on ctrl-C. For all other terminals, or if mousing is not active, pause mouse is equivalent to pause -1.
If one or more end conditions are given after pause mouse, then any one of the conditions will terminate
the pause. The possible end conditions are keypress, button1, button2, button3, and any. If the
pause terminates on a keypress, then the ascii value of the key pressed is returned in MOUSE KEY.
The character itself is returned as a one character string in MOUSE CHAR.
In all cases the coordinates of the mouse are returned in variables MOUSE X, MOUSE Y, MOUSE X2,
MOUSE Y2. See mouse variables (p. 35).
Note: Since pause communicates with the operating system rather than the graphics, it may behave
differently with different device drivers (depending upon how text and graphics are mixed).
Examples:
pause -1 # Wait until a carriage return is hit
pause 3 # Wait three seconds
pause -1 "Hit return to continue"
pause 10 "Isn’t this pretty? It’s a cubic spline."
pause mouse "Click any mouse button on selected data point"
pause mouse keypress "Type a letter from A-F in the active window"
pause mouse button1,keypress
pause mouse any "Any key or button will terminate"