From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan  5 16:26:49 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 14:25:49 -0800

After making appropriate changes, figure.m now works works on my Mac:

octave:4> figure(1)
ans = 1

But what have I achieved with this. What I can I now do that I could not do
before?
Henry




on 1/5/04 12:43 PM, Joe Koski at jkoski11 at comcast dot net wrote:

> OK, I received the forwarded message below with the patch for my OS
> X/Aquaterm problem with figure.m. However, instead of the block of figure.m
> (from the octave-forge MACOSX directory) that Jean-Francois recommended in
> his message, I replaced this block:
> 
>     if (! isempty (gnuterm=getenv ("GNUTERM")))
>       oneplot ();
>       figure_list = union (figure_list, f);
>       eval (sprintf ("gset term %s %d\n",gnuterm, f));
>     elseif (! isempty (getenv ("DISPLAY")))
>       oneplot ();
>       figure_list = union (figure_list, f);
>       eval (sprintf ("gset term x11 %d\n", f));
>     else
>       error ("figure: requires X11 and valid DISPLAY");
>     endif
> 
> with his recommended patch:
> 
>       oneplot ();
>       figure_list = union (figure_list, f);
>       eval (sprintf ("gset term aqua %d\n", f));
> 
> and everything seems to be working well. Thanks, Jean-Francois.
> 
> Joe Koski
> 
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Jean-Francois Cardoso <cardoso at tsi dot enst dot fr>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:03:30 +0100
> To: jkoski11 at comcast dot net
> Subject: figure in octave
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Joe,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> To fix your problem, find the file figure.m in octave, change the block
> 
>     if (! isempty (getenv ("DISPLAY")))
>       oneplot ();
>       figure_list = union (figure_list, f);
>       eval (sprintf ("gset term x11 %d\n", f));
>     else
>       error ("figure: requires X11 and valid DISPLAY");
>     endif
> to 
> 
>       oneplot ();
>       figure_list = union (figure_list, f);
>       eval (sprintf ("gset term aqua %d\n", f));
> 
> 
> and save the result as figure.m somewhere on your path where it will
> be found before the original figure.m.
> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> Could you also please post this response to the octave-help list (I am
> not subscribed myself)?  Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, JF
> 
> 
> ------ End of Forwarded Message
> 
> 
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