xlabel not visible on plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 10:20AM, "Lukas Reichlin" <lukas.reichlin at swissonline.ch> wrote:
>>>> I had been unaware the aquaterm could save its windows contents as
>>>> eps (pdf too).
>>>>
>>>> In any event, line 45 of gca.m is (should be) ...
>>>>
>>>> 	h = axes ();
>>>>
>>>> What happens if you type
>>>>
>>>> 	clear all
>>>> 	close all
>>>> 	axes
>>>> 	plot (1:10)
>>>>
>>>> also, what does your path look like (just type "path")?
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>> Yes, line 45 is
>>> 	h = axes ();
>>>
>>> For the first time,
>>> 	clear all
>>> 	close all
>>> 	axes
>>> 	plot(1:10)
>>> delivered a simple plot. Then I tried to run the m-file again. It
>>> didn't work, I got the same error message as before. Afterwards, I
>>> tried those four commands again and I got the following error:
>>> error: invalid use of script in index expression
>>> error: called from:
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>>> error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/
>>> octave/3.2.0/m/plot/plot.m at line 178, column 18
>>>
>>
>> I installed the control package and I tried your script with  
>> octave-3.2.x (developers sources). I do not get the error above.
>>
>> Please try running the script I've attached (it is yours from your  
>> initial email, with the axes position changed).
>>
>> If it works for you, please send me a script that does not work.
>>
>> Ben
>> <lukas.m>
>
>
>Thank you. I'm sorry, but it still doesn't work. I get
>
>error: invalid use of script in index expression
>error: called from:
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/gca.m at line 45, column 9
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 63, column 4
>error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
>octave/3.2.0/m/plot/semilogx.m at line 32, column 18
>error:   /Users/lukas/lukas.m at line 79, column 1
>
>Line 79 is the semilogx command. May I have to delete some kind of  
>"Preference" files?
>

Regarding "preferences", you can check to see what might be in ~/.octaverc

For the sake of being thorough, I downloaded both the ppc and i386 versions of Octave-3.2.0. The script ran cleanly for me on both a PPC based Mac and a i386 (each running 10.5.7).

Thus, it does appear you have a problem local to your installation. In the event you have inadvertently modified a core function, you might try a fresh install.

Ben