From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan  5 12:21:48 2004
Subject: Re: Octave/OS X Aquaterm problems (bugs or me?)
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net>,    Octave_post <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:21:03 -0800

Figure.m requires X11 as per author (see below). Does figure.m not merely
give you a new window for graphing with corresponding title which would be
equivalent to using
set term aqua 1
set term aqua 2
Perhaps even aqua has an option to give you a new window for each plot by
default?
Henry
## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
## This file is part of Octave.
## -*- texinfo -*-
##  at deftypefn {Function File} {} figure (@var{n})
## Set the current plot window to plot window  at var{n} dot   This function
## currently requires X11 and a version of gnuplot that supports multiple
## frames.
##  at end deftypefn

## Author: jwe




on 1/4/04 2:27 PM, Joe Koski at jkoski11 at comcast dot net wrote:

> As a relatively new Octave user, I having some problems with the Mac OS
> X/Aquaterm graphics interface, and I've not had enough experience to
> determine if the problems are me, or the Aquaterm interface itself.
> 
> By the way, Aquaterm looks much better to me than X11, and I really like
> being able to print graphics directly from Aquaterm, rather than having to
> do replots via another graphics driver.
> 
> First problem: When I try to use figure.m, I get the error message
> 
> octave:1> figure(1)
> error: figure: requires X11 and valid DISPLAY
> error: evaluating if command near line 42, column 7
> error: evaluating if command near line 41, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 40, column 3
> error: called from `figure' in file
> `/sw/share/octave/2.1.46/site/m/octave-forge/MacOSX/figure.m'
> octave:1> 
> 
> This occurs apparently while I'm using (or at least I think I'm using) the
> octave-forge Mac OS X version of figure.m. This occurs even after I've done
> "gset terminal aqua." Do I also need to setenv DISPLAY to something? I've
> tried setting DISPLAY to aqua, Aquaterm, and aquaterm, but those all give me
> errors. After figure is called, a show terminal gives me "terminal type is
> x11 1" even if it was set to aqua before.
> 
> Second problem (which may go away if above question is answered): When I
> ignore figure, my first page of four subplots goes well until I need to go
> to additional pages (figures?). At that point, even though I do a clg before
> each new subplot on the added page, the ylabels for the new page of plots is
> written over the ylabels of the previous pages of plots. After several
> pages, this can get messy. I guess I could do a rewrite and, after the first
> page, do replot instead of plot for each subplot, but that seems a bit
> awkward to me.
> 
> Any help, suggestions or ideas will be appreciated.
> 
> Joe Koski
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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