backend switching broken

[Elias Pipping]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:43 -0400
"John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org> wrote:

> On 14-Jun-2009, Elias Pipping wrote:
> 
> | --------
> | Bug report for Octave 3.2.0 configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> | 
> | Description:
> | -----------
> | 
> |   * Starting octave, running `backend("fltk")` and invoking plot
> |     yields a plot in fltk. Switching to gnuplot using
> |     `backend("gnuplot")` works, too -- the next plot will be done by
> |     gnuplot -- but switching back does not, i.e. `backend("fltk")`
> has |     no effect once gnuplot has been used. 
> 
> If I start a new Octave session and execute the commands
> 
>   backend ("fltk")
>   sombrero
>   backend ("gnuplot")
>   peaks
> 
> both surfaces are drawn in the figure 1 window using the fltk
> backend.  If I then do
> 
>   figure
> 
> the second figure window uses gnuplot.

That's not the problem I described. The problem I was seeing is being
unable to switch back to fltk once i've switched to gnuplot and drawn
something with it. No matter if I close all the figures or not.


-- Elias