Re: gnuplot> nset obj 2 : invalid command

[lo]

On Sunday 18 July 2010 23:59:48 David Bateman wrote:
> lo wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I have installed octave 3.3.51 on a Linux Suse 11.2;
> >
> > running the following (not representative of what I am doing or even
> > meaningful, I am simply trying to reduce my problem...)
> >
> >
> > h = figure;
> > t = 0:0.1:6.3;
> > for n = 1 : 9
> >     hc = plot(t,cos(t), "o", "markersize", 3, "markerfacecolor", "g");
> >     pause(1);
> >     delete(hc);
> > end
> >
> >
> > I get 9 times
> >
> > gnuplot> nset obj 2
> >          ^
> >          line 0: invalid command
> >
> > in the octave window;
> >
> > how can I avoid this ?
> > thanks for the help !
> 
> Something really strange is happening as the only occurence of "nset obj
> 2" is in the command "unset obj 2" which is valid... As I can't generate
> this same error with your code example I wonder if there is an error in
> the copy of scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m supplied by Suse. Do you
> want to run 'grep "obj 2"' in the scripts/plot directory?
> 
> D.
> 

I could not find any directory with scripts/plot,
so I compiled gnuplot 4.4.0 and installed it, instead of relying on the RPM 
provided by Suse;

and the issue does no longer arise ! solved;

moreover, the  plotting is by several orders of magnitude faster !

thanks for your tip;

regards,
Laurent