Re: download octave to windows 7

[A Kelly]

On 15/06/2010 9:46 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
>
> --- David Grundberg  wrote:
>
>    
> > On 06/14/2010 08:57 AM, PerB wrote:
> >      
> > > Maybe Mathilde's question is that trivial but I also have problem with Ocatve
> > > and Windows.
> > >
> > > I have downloaded and installed the latest Ocatve-Forge binaries
> > > (Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe) on both a Windows 7 and a
> > > Windows XP (SP3) machine. Both machine were "clean", i.e. no previous
> > > GNUplot or Octave installations present. I have not CygWin installed either.
> > >
> > > Octave installs and I can start the Octave command line interface and the
> > > text part and calculations seams to work OK.  But plotting do not work.
> > >
> > > A simple
> > >
> > >        
> > > > plot(1:10);
> > > >          
> > > will first give a warning of obsolete function isstr and doing it a second
> > > time will open a GNUplot window and plot a line but then the GNUplot window
> > > hangs and becomes non responsive.
> > >
> > > Starting GNUplot command line interface by it self (wgnuplot.exe) and do
> > > some sample plots e.g.;
> > >
> > > gnuplot>plot [-10:10] sin(x) )
> > >
> > > is not a problem so the GNUplot installation seams to work OK.
> > >
> > > Am I missing some Octave graphics drivers/DLLs/function/pacakges or what ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > /Per
> > >        
> >
> > Please reply at the bottom, it makes the thread easier to follow for others.
> >
> > The problems with e.g. the oct2mat package is well-documented on the
> > octave-forge website.
> >
> > The short reply in the previous discussion was less about the question
> > itself and more about the mail containing no information but "it doesn't
> > work".   Like whether or not the installer actually ran.  It's hard to
> > draw any conclusions based on nothing but opinion.
> >
> >      
> For windows version octave-3.2.4 on the octave-forge website, the way avoid to 
> the plot problem due to
> the oct2mat package being auto loaded is documented in the following,
>
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows
> 1. Standalone ports
>   1.1. Octave 3.2.4 for Windows MinGW32
>    Additional important topics found after the release:
>
> Regards
>
> Tatsuro
>
>
> I had a similar problem with the plot window freezing. Following the advice 
> about oct2mat made no difference. I have not yet found a solution.
>    
Regards,
Andrew