Re: xlabel not visible on plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 02:51PM, "Lukas Reichlin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> I had been unaware the aquaterm could save its windows contents as
>>>>>> eps (pdf too).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In any event, line 45 of gca.m is (should be) ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  h = axes ();
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What happens if you type
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  clear all
>>>>>>  close all
>>>>>>  axes
>>>>>>  plot (1:10)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> also, what does your path look like (just type "path")?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, line 45 is
>>>>>   h = axes ();
>>>>>
>>>>> For the first time,
>>>>>   clear all
>>>>>   close all
>>>>>   axes
>>>>>   plot(1:10)
>>>>> delivered a simple plot. Then I tried to run the m-file again. It
>>>>> didn't work, I got the same error message as before. Afterwards, I
>>>>> tried those four commands again and I got the following error:
>>>>> error: invalid use of script in index expression
>>>>> error: called from:
>>>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>>>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>>>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I installed the control package and I tried your script with
>>>> octave-3.2.x (developers sources). I do not get the error above.
>>>>
>>>> Please try running the script I've attached (it is yours from your
>>>> initial email, with the axes position changed).
>>>>
>>>> If it works for you, please send me a script that does not work.
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>> <lukas.m>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you. I'm sorry, but it still doesn't work. I get
>>>
>>> error: invalid use of script in index expression
>>> error: called from:
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/semilogx.m at line 32, column 18
>>> error:   /Users/lukas/lukas.m at line 79, column 1
>>>
>>> Line 79 is the semilogx command. May I have to delete some kind of
>>> "Preference" files?
>>>
>>
>> Regarding "preferences", you can check to see what might be in  
>> ~/.octaverc
>>
>> For the sake of being thorough, I downloaded both the ppc and i386  
>> versions of Octave-3.2.0. The script ran cleanly for me on both a  
>> PPC based Mac and a i386 (each running 10.5.7).
>>
>> Thus, it does appear you have a problem local to your installation.  
>> In the event you have inadvertently modified a core function, you  
>> might try a fresh install.
>>
>> Ben
>
>I did a fresh install of Octave, Gnuplot and Aquaterm and  
>deleted .octaveverc. But I still get:
>
>error: invalid use of script in index expression
>error: called from:
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/semilogx.m at line 32, column 18
>error:   /Users/lukas/OCTAVE/test.m at line 62, column 1
>
>even with the simplified m-file below.
>
>I tried
>       clear all
>       close all
>       axes
>       plot(1:10)
>It worked for the first time, from the second on I got:
>
>error: invalid use of script in index expression
>error: called from:
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18
>
>
>Are there any other files than .octaveverc to delete?
>
>Regards,
>Lukas
>

I'm perplexed.

What do you get when you type "ls *.m" ?

Ben