Re: Too much free time...

[Shai Ayal]

I think pause calles drawnow which calles __go_draw_axes__ which
calles pause ...

why do you need pause to debug?

Shai

On 3/25/07, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> In trying to investigate why my system takes so long to draw, I placed a pause()
> inside of __go_draw_axes__.m.  I've tried pause in a simple test M file and it
> seemed to work fine, but inside __go_draw_axes__.m according to the attached
> patch Octave goes into an infinite loop of redrawing the figure at a rapid rate.
>   After about twenty seconds I get:
>
> error: max_recursion_limit exceeded
>
> Any explanation for this?  I wonder because this might be a clue to the source
> of delay in my system.  That is, without the "pause()" perhaps (just guessing)
> there is this loop that goes to the recursion limit, stops then draws the plot.
>   With the pause(), the loop "comes back to the command line" and draws every
> time, hence it takes longer to reach the recursion limit.
>
> I can't see any files in octave subdirectory left over from the plotting
> debugging that might cause this.
>
> Dan
>
> --- /usr/local/share/octave/2.9.9+/m/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m    2007-03-24 
> 13:34:52.000000000 -0500
> +++ __go_draw_axes__.m  2007-03-24 22:08:35.260403463 -0500
> @@ -731,7 +731,9 @@
>
>    else
>      print_usage ();
> -  endif
> +  endif
> +
> +pause();
>
>  endfunction