Re: Automatically plot to image instead of window?

[Jake]

Thank you Martin and Søren.  I think the listener is a good bet, I didn't know 
you could do that...

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:08:23 +0200
Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> man, 12 07 2010 kl. 15:54 +0200, skrev Martin Helm:
> > Am Montag, 12. Juli 2010 14:57:13 schrieb Jake:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on an Octave interface project and I was wondering if there's 
> > > a
> > >  way to make Octave automatically plot to file instead of to a
> > >  window...without injecting print statements.  Thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > there are at least two different ways to create file output from a plot 
> > which 
> > come to my mind.
> > Create raw gnuplot commands if you want them for automatic postprocessing 
> > by 
> > an additional process but this also injects new code (option to the plot 
> > functions) and is maybe not really what you want.
> > Or you shadow your plot functions with your own local plot functions which 
> > do 
> > then essentially a print.
> > 
> > Maybe someone else has a better or more elegant idea.
> 
> I can't really think of anything elegant. But you might be able to do
> this using a listener. So, if you e.g. know that some property of the
> axes always changes when you create a new plot you could do something
> like (totally untested code)
> 
>   function my_listener ()
>     print test.eps
>   endfunction
> 
>   addlistener (gca (), "some_property", @my_listener);
> 
> I doubt this will work, though, is you need to find a property that
> always changes, and I'm not sure you'll be able to find such one.
> 
> Søren
> 
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