Gnuplot hangs on Windows XP

[Paul Wellner Bou]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. No, that is not the problem. The problem is that 
the window just is not reacting. I am not able tu use any controls and 
the mouse icon does not react neither.

I tried a sample of gnuplot without octave and it works fine. Well, I 
have a few thousands of points but that should work anyway, right?

Regards
Paul.

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Paul Wellner Bou <paul at purecodes.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i am trying the new octave for windows installer versions (I tried 3.0.3
>>  and 3.1.50). The JHandles graphic backend works, but it is limited if
>> you want to find out more information about the mouse position.
>>
>> So I tried it with gnuplot. The problem is now that the gnuplot window
>> is hanging and there is no way to use the controls. I can resize it. But
>> the plot does not resize until I change it in the octave command line,
>> for example using "grid on" or "grid off". I am still not able to use
>> the controls of the gnuplot window but at least the plot resizes to the
>> window size.
>>
>> I am using Windows XP. Is this a known problem? Are there workarounds?
> 
> The fact that the plot is not updated when you resize the window is
> the normal behavior of gnuplot: you have to force a replot to update
> the window, for instance by changing the grid mode. There's no way
> around that. For the other controls, at least the zoom buttons should
> be functional: you should be able to zoom with the mouse (I don't
> remember which mouse button you have to use), then switch back
> to previous view using the button.
> 
> Michael.