Re: Figure Position

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, August 13, 2009, at 11:57AM, "Kristen Richter" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>I have upgraded from 3.2.0 to octave 3.2.2 and am running gnuplot-x11 4.5.4-6 
>in ubuntu.
>
>However, even after trying the example below, I'm having the same sort of 
>problem, where new figures appear just below my command window, to the side of 
>my command window, to the side and bottom of my command window, and then tiled 
>with my command window, no matter what numbers I put in the [left bottom width 
>height] matrix for 'Position'. (See example below)
>
>octave:2> figure(1,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:3> figure(2,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:4> figure(3,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:5> figure(4,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:6> get(figure(1),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:7> get(figure(2),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:8> get(figure(3),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:9> get(figure(4),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>
>While querying 'Position' with the get command returns the input I gave, this 
>is obviously not occurring.
>
>Has anyone else come across this issue? Have I changed some global variable in 
>octave? Why would uninstalling and reinstalling octave not have restored 
>global defaults? What else could be overriding my 'Position' inputs?
>
>Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Kristen

Hi Kristen,

What happens when you try the commands below?

close all
figure (1, "position", [5, 5, 400, 400])

Also, "gnuplot-x11 4.5.4-6" doesn't look correct. I have a recent copy of the 
developers sources. The version for the developers sources is only 4.3.

You can check the version number of your installed gnuplot from Octave by 
typing "__gnuplot_version__". Or by typing "gnuplot --version" at a shell 
prompt.

Ben

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