From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jan 29 10:34:06 2001
Subject: Re: imagesc and no image...
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Al Niessner <Al_Niessner at bigfoot dot com>
Cc: Trond Varslot <trond at varslot dot net>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:34:00 -0600

On 22-Jan-2001, Al Niessner <Al_Niessner at bigfoot dot com> wrote:

| I installed xv and all works fine now. Octave needs an error message if
| xv is not found. It was an easy fix though once I got running on another
| machine and noticed that xv was being used to display the image.

Actually, Octave first tries display from ImageMagick, then xv, then
xloadimage, so all three have to be missing before it will fail.

If you'd like to try your hand at implementing a better error message,
please take a look at image.m, and submit a patch.

Thanks,

jwe




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