Re: Octave/Windows 2.9.16 release

[Michael Goffioul]

On 11/7/07, Kai Habel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> thanks for providing a new package. I see problems with image and contourf:
>
> octave.exe:6> contourf(peaks)
>
> gnuplot> set palette file "-" binary record=64 using 1:2:3:4;
>                                                            ^
>         line 0: Gray scale not sorted in gradient.
>
>
> octave.exe:7> clf,image
>
> gnuplot> set palette file "-" binary record=64 using 1:2:3:4;
>                                                            ^
>         line 0: Gray scale not sorted in gradient.
>
>
> I see distorted graphics in both cases and a colorbar with values in the 
> order of +/- 1e30. I think this has been reported before here [1]. But is 
> there a solution already?

I had a look and finally could find the reason (not easy to figure out...).
I updated the gnuplot patch on octave-forge SVN and also added a
package with the fixed gnuplot executables in the octave-forge file
release system (for release 2.9.16). Please give it a try.

Michael.