Re: Windows 8

[Søren Hauberg]

Den 01-04-2015 kl. 18:19 skrev John W. Eaton:
> Has anyone tested the Windows binary distribution of 4.0.0-rc2 on a 
> Windows 8 system?  I remember that there were reports of problems with 
> earlier versions and I'm wondering if those have been fixed. If not, 
> what were/are the problems?
I recently got a new laptop, which comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. I 
haven't had the time to wipe the machine clean and install Linux yet, so 
I figured I could do a quick test of how things work on a fresh Windows 8.

I downloaded the rc2 .exe installer and ran it. I was greeted with a 
warning saying "Do you want to allow the following program from an 
unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?". I said yes. Would 
it be possible to provide a publisher (e.g. GNU) ? That would make this 
first step less scary.

I was then presented with a warning from the Octave installer saying 
that Windows 8 is not supported -- do I really want to continue? I went 
ahead. The installer was easy to use, so no troubles here.

I started Octave and ran the following commands,

  A = rand(7);
  C = chol(A * A');

Worked nicely. I then tried plotting

  plot(diag(C))

This opened a figure window at the very top of the screen; in fact the 
top window decoration is outside the screen, so I can't actually grab 
the window and move it around. Also, the plot took around one minute to 
appear, which made me think that it wasn't working.

Other than that, I get the impression that things are working fairly 
nicely in Windows 8. One minor issue is that I have a high resolution 
screen (3800x1800, I think). While the main GUI is nicely scaled, the 
OpenGL plots appear rather tiny -- perhaps these could be scaled?

Is there anything in particular you would like to see tested?

Cheers
Søren