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Re: executing plot in background


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: executing plot in background
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:53:25 +0800

On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:

> On 28.10.10 19:11, Bob Odom wrote:
>> You can use 
>> 
>> figure ("visible", "off"); 
>> 
>> or 
>> 
>> set (0, "defaultfigure", "off"); 
>> 
>> To turn screen printing back on, replace "off" with "on". 
>> 
>> This is also handy if you are running remotely and don't want the figures to 
>> display. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Begoña Fuentes wrote: 
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,I am trying to save some plots, and for that I am 
>>> successfully using 
>>> "print" command, printing them to certain .png files. 
>>> 
>>> The problem is that I would like to execute my program in background, 
>>> without the user 
>>> knowing that some graphs are being plotted. This is: when I launch the .m 
>>> and the plots 
>>> are drawn just before the print command I don't want to see them. I just 
>>> want the .m to 
>>> write those graphs in png files. 
>>> 
>>> So is there any possibility of "telling" octave not to show me the plots 
>>> while they are 
>>> being drawn to a file? 
>>> 
>>> Any help here is quite appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. 
>>> 
>>> Best regards, 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Begoña Fuentes 
>>> 
> 
> Dear Bob,   this is a very useful piece of information. I wonder how I could 
> have figured this one out by myself.
> The option is neither documnted in the printed "GNU Octave Manual Version 3" 
> nor in the online help: "help figure".
> 
> I run Ovtave 3.0.5 

The documentation for Octave's handle graphics is behind its capability. It 
would be great if someone would invest their time to work on that.

Volunteers are always welcome.

Ben




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