Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave: 0.3.0

[LUK ShunTim]

Alexander Barth wrote:
> LUK ShunTim wrote:
> > Alexander Barth wrote:
> > > Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > > > --- Alexander Barth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I released version 0.3.0 of yapso. It is available at
> > > > > http://yapso.sourceforge.net/
> > > > >
> > > > > and some demos are at:
> > > > > http://yapso.sourceforge.net/demo/demo.html
> >
> > Hello Alex,
> >
> > Thanks, they look impressive!
> >
> > What functionality do I lose if I don't have the OSMesa library?
>
> Thanks for trying yapso!
> OSMesa is used for saving the figure as png files. Without OSMesa, you 
> can still create png files, but no window should overlap the current 
> yapso figure since the pixels are read directly from the screen. Also, 
> you cannot change the figure size for the png export 
> (set(gcf,'PaperSize',...)).

I'll be careful if I have to do that. Perhaps you can add this to the 
documentation.

> Is OSMesa not available on your platform? Which platform/distribution 
> are you using? On Ubuntu 6.06, OSMesa seems to conflict with the 

They say ubuntu 6.06 or better, so I installed debian/sid. :-)

> hardware accelerated OpenGL libraries. Is that the reason why you don't 
> want to use OSMesa?

Yes, and the fear was justified. :-( Yapso just crashed when compiled 
and used with the debian libosmesa6 package. It worked fine without it. 
Octave 2.9.14, i686 kernel 2.6.22, mesa 7.0.1-2, and the free radeon 
driver with dri on a thinkpad t43, if this information may be useful.

> Cheers,
> Alex

Regards,
ST
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