"16.1 Two-Dimensional Plotting" is unclear

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org> wrote:

> lør, 15 12 2007 kl. 04:17 -0800, skrev Sergei Steshenko:
> > I'm writing this after observing that my 'plot' commands have destructive
> > behavior, i.e. new plot is drawn in the same window, completely destroying
> > previous one.
> Basically, you should call 'figure' every time you want a new window.
> 
> [snip]
> > So, if I didn't miss something, I'm told a handle is created, but I'm not told what
> > can/should be done with that handle.
> > 
> > Any clarifications ?
> The graphics handle stuff is still quite new, so the documentation isn't
> quite done yet. If you want to improve this, your help would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Søren 
> 
> 

Thanks for the 'figure' tip.

"help figure" in octave-2.9.19 does return some info, but

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Two_002dDimensional-Plotting.html#Two_002dDimensional-Plotting

page has nothing on 'figure'.

...

I am not sure I understand octave developers' approach to plotting.

For example, wxWidets developers decides (if I understand them correctly):

1) here is our set of classes, i.e. data + methods;
2) here is our underlying code implementing the above set on top of native
toolkit (like gtk+ for UNIX-like systems);

So, what do 'octave' developers intend to do ? To replicate whatever Matlab does
(that's more or less like the 1) above) by mapping it on GNUPLOT (that's more or less
like the 2) above).

Thanks,
  Sergei.


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