From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed May 22 13:58:26 2002
Subject: Re: hack of menu.m
From: Mirek Kwasniak <mirek at zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl>
To: Schloegl Alois <alois dot schloegl at tugraz dot at>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:56:41 +0200

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:19:25PM +0200, Schloegl Alois wrote:
> menu does not return selected value but produces error message and repeats
> display of the selection. 
> 
> 
> octave:3> K = menu('title','s1','s2','s3')
> title
> 
>   [ 1] s1
>   [ 2] s2
>   [ 3] s3
> 
> pick a number, any number: 1
> 
> error: input invalid or out of range
> 
>   [ 1] s1
>   [ 2] s2
>   [ 3] s3
> 
> 
> 
> The following hack is a quick solution, not necessarily the best. 

I observed this in 2.1.35cvs but I use now 2.1.36 from Debian and:

octave2.1:6> s = input ("pick a number, any number: ", "s");
pick a number, any number: 1
octave2.1:7> size(s)
ans =

  1  1

:)

Mirek



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