Re: polar plot help - can't make it work [SOLVED]

[petersk]

OK, I figured out what I needed to do.  I needed to "EOPEN" before
"EGLOBSPAR".  That seemed to allow the title to appear and scale to change.

Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Kurt



petersk wrote:
> 
> I tried the polar plot and it doesn't work like MATLAB's, but I found a
> post about epstk and it's polar plots.
>   I'm trying something I THOUGHT would be simple, but it's not.  It seems
> like Octave is not passing the global variable that epstk supposedly
> accepts to epstk's functions.  Here's a demo:
> pizzaPat = [7.5, 7, 5.5, 4, 2.5, 0, -2, -3.5, -5, -8, -11.5, -13.5, -12,
> -8, -5, -2, 1, 3, 4]
> tmp=fliplr(pizzaPat);
> pizzaPat =[pizzaPat tmp(2:length(pizzaPat)-1)];
> angle=[0:10:350].*pi/180;
> ePolarAxisRadScale=[-30 10 10];
> eopen('polarplot.eps')
> epolar(angle,pizzaPat);
> eclose
> eview 
> 
> I've repeated with things like:
> global ePlotTitleText='Polar Plot';
> global ePolarPlotAreaAngStart=90;
> global ePolarPlotAreaAngEnd=270;
> and I get no title.  (I've left out the "global" to try all methods). 
> Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> 
> What I'd really like is for "0" to be at the top as well, but since I
> can't get globals to work, I can't even attempt to experiment with that.
> Kurt
> 
> 

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