Re: Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Owen Densmore]

Hi Henry, thanks for the response.

I tried your tests, while un-commenting out the line in drawnow.m:
    cmd = sprintf ("%s -title \"Figure %d\"", cmd, h);
that had fixed the problem.  I.e. I went back to the stage that was  
failing before.

I then tried
octave-2.9.12:2> title ("myTitle")
.. which then failed as before.  (Good test, btw! sorta the null test.)

I did notice that your system is PPC, while mine is Intel.  That  
could be the difference.

My system is an intel MacBook Pro, using the latest Tiger, with  
GnuPlot Version 4.2, Terminal set to "aqua", and Octave, version  
2.9.9 (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1).  The gnuplot is compiled from source,  
from the gnuplot-4.2.0.tar.gz, I believe from sourceforge.

I also have the same problems with the /usr/local version of octave  
from hpc.sourceforge.net, but without the workaround .. see:
http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-gnuplot-aquaterm-invocation-from-- 
usr-local-version-of-octave.-tf4063270.html
.. or http://tinyurl.com/2vepnr

I did check for .octaverc and .gnuplot files, and I have neither.   
Nor do I have any environment variables set for gnuplot or octave.

Thanks for the tests and information .. helps calibrate.

    -- Owen


On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> Title seems to work for me. See below with my comments.
> Henry F
>
>
>  [~] -bash-2.05b 144$
> '/Applications/octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.12
> Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
>
> Octave was configured for "powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1".
>
> snip
> General info plus complaints about LOADPATH' in `/Users/hfm/.octaverc'
> endSnip
>
>
> octave-2.9.12:1> title ("myTitle")
> # produces blank plot labeled "Figure 0" with title as specified
> octave-2.9.12:2> x = linspace (0,pi,100);
> octave-2.9.12:3> plot (x, sin(x))
> Produces expected plot labeled "Figure 0" without any title
> octave-2.9.12:4> title ("myTitle")
> #Title as specified is added to plot of sin(x) vs x.
> # Gnuplot is 4.0 patchlevel 0; AquaTerm is v1.0(1.0)
>
> octave-2.9.12:5>