Re: Hold on and hold off in octave-2.9.8

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Sep-2006, Joe Koski wrote:

| To answer my own question, I tried some plots in X11, and the correct plot
| numbers appear with each plot window. Apparently the figure number problem
| is related to the use of the Mac AquaTerm interface.
| 
| In the old 2.1.73 figure.m, there is a line
| 
|    eval (sprintf ("__gnuplot_set__ term %s %d\n", gnuterm, f));
| 
| where gnuterm is the terminal type (aqua for AquaTerm) and f is the number
| in figure(f). Where is the equivalent line in the new octave? My initial
| search could not find it.

In 2.9.x, each figure is a connection to a separate gnuplot process.
This allows the figure command to work properly with any gnuplot
terminal driver, not just X11.

The plot window title for gnuplot with X11 may be set with the command
line option -title "window title" but I'm not sure this will always work.
For example, does the Windows binary of gnuplot, run by way of the
pgnpulot or pipe-gnuplot front ends accept this option?

Does your version of gnuplot with the AquaTerm driver allow the window
title to be set from the command line?  Does it use the same
-title "window title" option?  If so, then I think you should be able
to fix the problem by adding

  gnuplot_use_title_option (true);

to your ~/.octaverc file.

jwe