Re: axes limit calculations

[Shai Ayal]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> However, switching to fltk appears to work ... well  almost. The plot
>> doesn't render properly.
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>> Can you elaborate on how it renders?
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>> Perhaps a picture says it best?
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>> octave:30> close all
>> octave:31> backend('fltk')
>> octave:32> x = 0:10;
>> octave:33> plot(x)
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>> To underlying windows each contribute to the result in a rather strange
>> way. The resulting figure includes various sections of my email client, and
>> some things I don't recognize. In addition the following line is displayed
>> in the terminal.
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>> octave:34> ca=nan
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>> A picture is attached.
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>> This looks like an OpenGL and/or fltk problem. The best way to debug this
>> would be to run the ftlk-opengl test programs gl_overlay and glpuzzle and
>> see if they work. You should have them in the test subdir of the fltk
>> sources. If you did not install fltk from source it's a problem :(
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> I should have done this earlier, but better late than never. I reran the to
> test programs you recommended and can verify fltk appears to be functioning
> properly. Pictures attached.
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> Ben
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So it's something in octave/fltk_backend. However since Michael can't
reproduce it (and it will take me ~1 day to compile octave with my
current machine), it seems to be something which is mac specific. Did
you try the fltk-config --post command on octave or fltk_backend.oct?

Shai