Re: double property "markersize" failed

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Corson Charles <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was tinkering, always a bad thing, with the set
> (0,default..property,value)   so as to have a default sized marker for
> a long series of data reductions and I immediately got into the error
> state below (and yes, I made some typo's, but when checking the plot
> function afterwords, I was ok until the 'markersize' was tried - yes,
> I was experimenting on finding the right syntax).  I cannot get out of
> it, period.
>
> I have backups so, I restored the /opt/local/share/octave/3.2.3/m/
> plot/  directory.  no luck.  I ran octave w/no read of init files, the
> same errors.
>
>
> Any suggestions, or knowledge of how to recover, it would be
> appreciated of course (where do these default settings write to file?
> I assume somewhere as evidenced to the persistence of the error).
> True,   I can reinstall OCTAVE, changing the 'default property/value'
> for routine plotting *shouldn't* be a problem right?
>
>
> ok, back to work
>
>
>
> Charles
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> octave:1> plot (rand(10))
> octave:2> plot (rand(10),"@+k","markersize","1")
> error: set: invalid value for double property "markersize"

IMO, the error message is quite explicit. It tells you the
markersize property is given an invalid value. Indeed, you're
giving a string where a number is expected.

Michael.