From graphics-request at octave dot org Tue Sep 27 11:04:04 2005
Subject: Re: Multicolor mesh plot patch
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics dot muni dot cz>, bug@octave.org,         graphics@octave.org
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:03:36 -0400

On 27-Sep-2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| The theory behind my doing this was Matlab compatibility--by default 
| Matlab plots have no colorbox, but the command "colorbar" adds one. (For 
| the same reason, I think that by default we should have "set nokey" for 
| all plots, and the "legend" command used to add them).

I think this is a good idea, but I think that rather than worrying
about these small details now, we need to get something going with a
handle graphics implementation so that we can more easily control the
entire appearance of a plot.  So I'd rather see effort going toward
that, and completely replacing the current implementation of Octave's
plot commands.  As I see it, we can provide most of an implementation
of handle graphics using gnuplot as the backend plotter.  See the
"handle graphics" discussion on the maintainers list from a few months
ago.

| They can with the print command (in octave-forge).

The print command is now a part of Octave.

jwe