Re: errorplot not working?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Jan 29, 2008 2:09 PM, Michael Grossbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> When I issue
>
> octave-3.0.0.exe:5> errorbar([1,2,3], [0.1,0.1,0.1])
>
> under Windows with jhandles as plotting backend I get the following
> error message:
>
> error: [java] org.octave.graphics.PropertyException: property not found
> - ldata
> error: evaluating for command near line 32, column 11
> error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 9
> error: evaluating for command near line 29, column 7
> error: evaluating if command near line 24, column 5
> error: called from `__jhandles_set' in file
> `D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave
> \packages\jhandles-0.3.1\__jhandles_set.m'
> error: evaluating switch command near line 56, column 5
> error: evaluating for command near line 36, column 3
> error: called from `__errplot__' in file
> `D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave\3.
> 0.0\m\plot\__errplot__.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 71, column 19
> error: evaluating if command near line 70, column 3
> error: called from `__errcomm__' in file
> `D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave\3.
> 0.0\m\plot\__errcomm__.m'
> error: called from `errorbar' in file
> `D:\Anwenderprog\Octave\share\octave\3.0.0
> \m\plot\errorbar.m'
> octave-3.0.0.exe:5>
>
> Is this me misunderstanding the documentation:
> "The simplest form is
>           errorbar (y, ey)
> where the first argument is taken as the set of y coordinates and the
> second argument ey is taken as the errors of the y values."
> or an octave related error?

This is due to a mismatch between the front-end functions (like errorplot),
which are mainly written for the gnuplot graphics backend, and JHandles.
For this kind of plot, you will have to use gnuplot as graphics backend;
you can disable jhandles by using "pkg unload jhandles".

Michael.