Re: gnuplot_x11 driver with octave.app/gnuplot.app on Mac

[Thomas Treichl]

Henry F. Mollet schrieb:
> Thanks, Tomas;
> I've made the suggested changes in gnuplot (in line 56 after "export
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR... fi")  and it works when starting with gnuplot (see below).
> I can also switch between AquaTerm and x11 after invoking gnuplot.
>
> However, when starting with octave, I still have the same problem (see
> below). I have not yet tried to change __gnuplot_version__.m and/or
> drawnow.m.  I have seen additional emails regarding this and have to study
> them more carefully to better understand.
> Henry
>
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export GNUTERM=x11
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnu
> plot
>
>         G N U P L O T
>         Version 4.2 patchlevel 0
>         last modified March 2007
>         System: Darwin 8.10.0
>
> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>
> gnuplot> GNUTERM=aqua
>          undefined variable: aqua
> gnuplot> set term aqua
> Terminal type set to 'aqua'
> Options are '0 title "Figure 0" size 846 594 font "Times-Roman,14"
> noenhanced so
> lid'
> gnuplot> plot cos(x)
>
> gnuplot> set term x11
> Terminal type set to 'x11'
> Options are '0'
> gnuplot> plot tan(x)
>
> gnuplot> 
> *********************
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ export GNUTERM=x11
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octa
> ve
> GNU Octave, version 2.9.13
> Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton and others.
>
> octave-2.9.13:1> fplot('cos',[0,2*pi])
> # still using AquaTerm
> octave-2.9.13:2> 
> *********************

Yes Henry, that's because of Octave.app comes with the sources of the 
Octave-2.9.13 tarball. Just change the two files of Octave.app as described in 
my email then it will also work for Octave. Your problem at the moment is that 
the 'drawnow' function of Octave.app overwrites your GNUTERM environment 
variable resp. uses its own backend settings...

  Thomas