Re: possible bug with plot command?

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Jeremy Brower wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Jeremy Brower wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi all. I'm a long time MATLAB user, and have very recently installed 
>> > Octave (3.2.4) to check it out. I've got a weird issue going on with the 
>> > plot command. Let's say I have a new, empty workspace, and I enter the 
>> > command:
>> >
>> > figure(1),plot([1:3],[1:3])
>> >
>> > I get the warning message: "warning: isstr is obsolete and will be removed 
>> > from a future version of Octave, please use ischar instead", and no figure 
>> > window shows up. I can continue hitting enter, or entering other commands, 
>> > and no figure window ever appears. Only when I enter "clear all" does 
>> > figure(1) show up and show the original plot I've asked for.
>> >
>> > Am I doing something wrong to deserve this behavior?
>> >
>> > Thanks for the help.
>> 
>> I don't recall this being reported before. What OS are you running?
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I'm running Windows Vista Business 32-bit with SP1. In the meantime, I've 
> just added the 'refresh' command at the end of each plot command, and it 
> forces the expected behavior.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.
> Jeremy

I'm a MacOS user. So I won't be any help with Windows Vista.

There are some Windows users who follow this list. Hopefully, someone will 
offer some comment.

Ben