Re: Gnuplot hangs on Windows XP

[Michael Goffioul]

It depends on the type of plot you're using. Using a large
number of points may just make gnuplot react *very*
slowly.

Michael.


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Paul Wellner Bou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your answer. No, that is not the problem. The problem is that
> the window just is not reacting. I am not able tu use any controls and
> the mouse icon does not react neither.
>
> I tried a sample of gnuplot without octave and it works fine. Well, I
> have a few thousands of points but that should work anyway, right?
>
> Regards
> Paul.
>
> Michael Goffioul wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Paul Wellner Bou <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i am trying the new octave for windows installer versions (I tried 3.0.3
>>>  and 3.1.50). The JHandles graphic backend works, but it is limited if
>>> you want to find out more information about the mouse position.
>>>
>>> So I tried it with gnuplot. The problem is now that the gnuplot window
>>> is hanging and there is no way to use the controls. I can resize it. But
>>> the plot does not resize until I change it in the octave command line,
>>> for example using "grid on" or "grid off". I am still not able to use
>>> the controls of the gnuplot window but at least the plot resizes to the
>>> window size.
>>>
>>> I am using Windows XP. Is this a known problem? Are there workarounds?
>>
>> The fact that the plot is not updated when you resize the window is
>> the normal behavior of gnuplot: you have to force a replot to update
>> the window, for instance by changing the grid mode. There's no way
>> around that. For the other controls, at least the zoom buttons should
>> be functional: you should be able to zoom with the mouse (I don't
>> remember which mouse button you have to use), then switch back
>> to previous view using the button.
>>
>> Michael.
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