Re: modified graphics_toolkit and improved doc-string (was: no fltk)

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 4, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Liam Groener wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2012, at 10:01 AM, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6/1/2012 11:32 PM, Liam Groener wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Marco,
>>>> Have you tried entering the command:
>>>> figure
>>>> After changing the graphics_toolkit but before plotting a new figure?
>>> 
>>> Oh,
>>> thanks. Never noticed before
>> 
>> Actually, I don't think it's at all obvious that a call to figure should be 
>> required for a change in the graphics_toolkit to take effect. Ben Abbot was 
>> the one who pointed out the requirement to me (with regard to Mac OS X). 
>> Should be mentioned in the manual, or maybe the wiki.
> 
> Each figure has a property "__graphics_toolkit__" which indicates which 
> toolkit it is using.
> 
> The following will produce a gnuplot figure and then switch to fltk.
> 
>       close all
>       graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>       plot (rand (3))
>       graphics_toolkit (1, "fltk")
> 
> The same may be done by ...
> 
>       close all
>       graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>       plot (rand (3))
>       set (1, "__graphics_toolkit__", "fltk")
> 
> To switch all figures to gnuplot ...
> 
>       graphics_toolkit (findobj (0, "type", "figure"), "gnuplot")
> 
> The doc-string for graphics_tookit() is a bit minimalistic. Would someone 
> like to produce  a changeset ?
> 
> Ben

I pushed the change below.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/395d238418a7

Ben