Re: plotyy broken in 3.6.1?

[Ben Abbott]

On May 20, 2012, at 3:21 PM, marco atzeri wrote:

> On 5/20/2012 8:22 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> On May 20, 2012, at 2:10 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/20/2012 1:54 AM, notMyUsername wrote:
>> 
>> I pushed a fix.
>> 
>>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/161d06a52360
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> on cygwin with gnuplot, it is not effective, only 1 curve is plotted.
> I also noticed that a second call to plotyy causes a crash
> 
> octave:16>    subplot(3,1,3)
> octave:17>    hold on
> octave:18>    title('x(t), y(y)')
> octave:19>    plotyy(t,x,t,y);
> octave:20> plotyy(t,x,t,y)
> error: get: invalid handle (= -13.88)
> error: called from:
> error:   /pub/hg/octave_build/../octave/scripts/plot/plotyy.m at line 162, 
> column 10
> error:   /pub/hg/octave_build/../octave/scripts/plot/plotyy.m at line 110, 
> column 19
> error: invalid conversion from real matrix to real scalar
> error: __calc_dimensions__: expecting graphics handle as only argument
> error: called from:
> error: /pub/hg/octave_build/../octave/scripts/plot/private/__go_draw_axes__.m 
> at line 55, column 8
> error: 
> /pub/hg/octave_build/../octave/scripts/plot/private/__go_draw_figure__.m at 
> line 167, column 19
> error: /pub/hg/octave_build/../octave/scripts/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at 
> line 86, column 5
> octave:20> ^C
> 

I can reproduce the error, and opened a bug report.

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?36508

Regarding the original problem, what version of gnuplot are you using ? And, 
can you email me the "debug.gp" produced by the command below after running the 
script by "NotMyUsername" ?

        drawnow ("windows", "/dev/null", false, "debug.gp")

Ben