Re: History in Octave GUI

[jkr]

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> On Nov 25, 2014, at 10:19 PM, jkr [via Octave] <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I installed 3.8.2 from a dmg I found via another thread.  It installed 
> gracefully under /usr/local/octave, alongside 3.8.0.  Meanwhile, before I 
> found that dmg, I built what I thought would be 3.8.2 using homebrew.  That 
> turned out to install 3.8.1, and in a different location (under 
> /usr/local/Cellar/octave).  Now I have 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 (3.8.2 having replaced 
> 3.8.0 as expected in the GUI launcher - the code is still where it was). 
> 
> 3.8.1 seems to work fine, but it doesn't have a GUI (at least, not the way I 
> built it with homebrew). 
> 
> 3.8.2 launches a GUI alright, and has command recall, but doesn't work 
> correctly.  plot() never plots.  It brings up gnuplot_qt (as does 3.8.1), but 
> then gnuplot_qt crashes. 
> 
> I can live with 3.8.1, though as a migrant from Matlab, I'm pretty thoroughly 
> spoiled by its GUI.  I'd like 3.8.2 to work.  I suspect it is calling the 
> wrong graphics routine, as a consequence of the 3.8.1 installation somehow.  
> The instructions for 3.8.1 involved installing XQuartz, which seems like the 
> qt in gnuplot_qt may be referring to. 
> 
> Since the installation processes for 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 resulted in separate 
> installations, and each has bits and dependencies all over the place, I don't 
> know how to disentangle them if this if interference between them is the 
> problem. 
> 
> Clues appreciated. 
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