Re: Octave/OS X Aquaterm problems (bugs or me?)

[Joe Koski]

Per and Henry,

Progress! I restored my figure.m files to the original octave-forge /MacOSX
configuration and added the "setenv GNUTERM aqua" (tcsh for OS X 10.2.8) to
my .cshrc, and everything is working. In addition, I should also still have
X11 available if I want to use it. Thanks.

Per: Did you get my off-list message on the successful build of octave-forge
without TeX? Welcome back, wherever you were.

Joe Koski

on 1/7/04 3:49 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:

> Joe and Per,
> It is still not clear to me how figure(n) is different from set term aqua
> (n). Well, I DID see a difference when running my script which produces 3
> plot windows, namely ans = 1, ans = 2, and ans =3 (see below) when using
> figure (n) instead of term aqua (n). However, as outlined before I had turn
> off and back on mulitplot between each window. Can these "ans" be used as
> handles for something useful. I understand that I could use f1 = figure(1)
> etc and then the output would produce f1 = 1 etc.
> Henry
> 
> octave:3> MyFunctionxdotp161
> Using file MyFunctionxdotp161.m
> x0 =
> 4.0000
> 1.1000
> 4.0000
> ans = 1
> ans = 2
> ans = 3
> elapsed_time = 8.2461
> cpu_time = 6.9900
> 
> 
> on 1/6/04 4:39 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> on 1/6/04 3:59 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>>> This didn't quite work for me but I'm making progress.  I was testing an
>>> Octave *script* which originally had 9 plots using "set aqua term x" 9
>>> times. Using set multiplot, I tried to get the first 4 plots into one window
>>> (using 4 different origins), the next 4 in the second window, which left #9
>>> for the third window.
>>> 
>>> I found that using set term aqua required multiplot to be turned off and
>>> back on between the "set term aqua (x)" statements or I got a warning and no
>>> results. (gnuplot> set term aqua 2 line 0: You can't change the terminal in
>>> multiplot mode)
>>> 
>>> 2) When using figure (x) instead, I got no warning but plots 5-8 appeared on
>>> top of plots 1-4 in the first window. As above, I had to turn off and back
>>> on mulitplot between the figure (x) statements to get what I wanted.
>>> Henry
>>> 
>> Henry, I concur that things aren't yet 100 per cent with figure.m and "set
>> term aqua" on Mac OS X. I also had to do much fiddling and insertion of clg
>> and pause at various points in my script to get what I wanted. Also, I could
>> never get more than two plot windows open at a given time. The Octave manual
>> has only a short description of figure. The gnuplot manual looks like it was
>> glued together in the 80s, and it reads like a treatise on ancient graphics
>> systems (DEC Regis, Tektronix 401x, etc.) and operating systems(Vax VMS,
>> Amiga, etc.). Just one of the challenges with use of free software, I guess.
>> I'm just happy things work as well as they do.
>> 
>> Incidentally, I was pleased to find that "set term aifm color" gives me
>> files that open in Adobe Illustrator 10 without problems, although saving
>> from Aquaterm into EPS format or PDF also works well with Illustrator or
>> other programs.
>> 
>> Joe Koski 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> on 1/5/04 3:31 PM, Joe Koski at address@hidden wrote:
>>> 
>>>> When you are doing multiple plots with "set terminal aqua" in one plot
>>>> window, say figure(1), and the page fills up with plots, you can call
>>>> figure(2) to start a new plot window without closing the old window. At
>>>> least that's what it did for me. figure.m worked for me in X11, but did not
>>>> work with Aquaterm.
>>>> 
>>>> If the figure.m is not complaining about needing X11, it is probably OK for
>>>> Aquaterm, and works as stated in the Octave manual.
>>>> 
>>>> Joe Koski
>>>> 
>>>> on 1/5/04 3:25 PM, Henry F. Mollet at address@hidden wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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 address@hidden 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 <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:03:30 +0100
>>>>>> To: address@hidden
>>>>>> 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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