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Re: Windows 8
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Søren Hauberg |
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Re: Windows 8 |
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Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:52:00 +0200 |
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Den 01-04-2015 kl. 18:19 skrev John W. Eaton:
Has anyone tested the Windows binary distribution of 4.0.0-rc2 on a
Windows 8 system? I remember that there were reports of problems with
earlier versions and I'm wondering if those have been fixed. If not,
what were/are the problems?
I recently got a new laptop, which comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. I
haven't had the time to wipe the machine clean and install Linux yet, so
I figured I could do a quick test of how things work on a fresh Windows 8.
I downloaded the rc2 .exe installer and ran it. I was greeted with a
warning saying "Do you want to allow the following program from an
unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?". I said yes. Would
it be possible to provide a publisher (e.g. GNU) ? That would make this
first step less scary.
I was then presented with a warning from the Octave installer saying
that Windows 8 is not supported -- do I really want to continue? I went
ahead. The installer was easy to use, so no troubles here.
I started Octave and ran the following commands,
A = rand(7);
C = chol(A * A');
Worked nicely. I then tried plotting
plot(diag(C))
This opened a figure window at the very top of the screen; in fact the
top window decoration is outside the screen, so I can't actually grab
the window and move it around. Also, the plot took around one minute to
appear, which made me think that it wasn't working.
Other than that, I get the impression that things are working fairly
nicely in Windows 8. One minor issue is that I have a high resolution
screen (3800x1800, I think). While the main GUI is nicely scaled, the
OpenGL plots appear rather tiny -- perhaps these could be scaled?
Is there anything in particular you would like to see tested?
Cheers
Søren