RE: Help with saveas and fltk

[Rick M. Cox]

Ben:

I installed Ghostscript to a path without any white spaces and tried my
plot.  As usual Octave crashed.

I captured the diagnostics with Print Screen and placed them in the attached
Word document.  Hopefully you can find what you need.  Also, the screen
capture shows my scrambled figure window if that is of help.

Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 1:19 AM
To: Rick M. Cox
Cc: 'help-octave Octave'
Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk


On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Rick M. Cox wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 9:17 PM
> To: Rick M. Cox
> Cc: help-octave Octave
> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Rick M. Cox wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok. The problem can be fixed by installing Octave using a path with no
>>> spaces in it.
>>> 
>>> There may be other solutions.  If so, perhaps a windows user can offer
>> some
>>> help.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ben:
>>> 
>>> I will install Octave using a path with no spaces in it.
>>> 
>>> I am curious.  Are my problems peculiar to "fltk"?  "gnuplot" performs
>>> flawlessly with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give it even though
>> Octave
>>> is currently in a path with white spaces.
>>> 
>>> Also, do I need to install Ghostscript in a directory with no spaces?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Rick
>> 
>> For eps output, I would expect a problem with both fltk and gnuplot.  If
you
>> are comfortable trying to debug the problem, I can offer some
suggestions.
>> Also be sure the "relpy-all".  There may be some other windows users who
>> have already resolved this problem on the mail-list.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ben:
> 
> I installed Octave to a path with no white spaces with "fltk" as the
default
> graphics package.  All 'print' and 'saveas' commands fail in exactly the
> same way they did when Octave was in a path with white spaces.  Apparently
> this does not fix my problem.
> 
> To summarize:
> 'gnuplot' works flawlessly with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give
> Octave whether it is in a path with a white space or not.
> 
> 'fltk' fails with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give Octave whether it
> is in a path with a white space or not.  In these cases either nothing
> happens (no file is saved) or the figure window becomes unresponsive,
Octave
> displays: 'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external
command,
> 
> operable program or batch file and then becomes unresponsive as well.
> 
> Rick

To determine what is happening please edit __print_fltk__.m and remove the
semicolon from the end of line 149.  The resulting line is below.

  opts.pipeline = pipeline

It you don't know where to find this file, type the command below in Octave.

        strrep (which ('plot'), 'plot.m', sprintf
('private%s__print_fltk__.m', filesep))

Once the semicolon has been removed from the end of line 149, try ...

        close all
        graphics_toolkit fltk
        plot (rand (3))
        plot -depsc test.eps

And copy-n-paste everything that octave prints in its windows into your
replay to this email.

Ben

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