cla() ?

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:06 PM, David Bateman wrote:
>
>> Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> This is as far as I have gone.
>>> octave-3.1.51+:96> figure(1)
>>> octave-3.1.51+:97> subplot(211)
>>> octave-3.1.51+:98> subplot(212)
>>> octave-3.1.51+:99> hax = get(gcf,'children')
>>> hax =
>>> -40.963  -28.300
>>> octave-3.1.51+:100> ishandle(hax)
>>> ans = 0
>>> octave-3.1.51+:101> ishandle(hax(1))
>>> ans =  1
>>> octave-3.1.51+:102> ishandle(hax(2))
>>> ans =  1
>>> The ishandle function should return a result for each member of  
>>> it's input with the same shape as it's input.
>>> As I am limited to the m-file caste, I hope one of you guys in the  
>>> upper c++ caste can take this on ;-)
>>> If this really is the same problem as the one you posted the link  
>>> to, than I expect my conclusion as to what the problem is that  
>>> I've encountered is quite overly simplified.
>>
>> Ok then its not the same bug but produces the same errors, which is  
>> a pity as I was hoping for help :-( .. In any case the fix for this  
>> is relatively easy, and a changeset is attached.
>>
>> D.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I've started a build and will offer a changeset for the new function  
> cla() tomorrow.
>
> Ben

The build with jwe's most recent sources failed with your patch  
applied. I don't know if it matters, but he has about 6 more days of  
changesets applied as is indicated by your ChangeLog.

A build without the "ishandle" changeset went fine.

The error which ended the make process is below.

[...]
making vr-idx.texi from vr-idx.txi
gawk -f ./mkcontrib.awk ./contributors.in > contributors.texi-t
makeinfo -I.. -I. -I./.. ./octave.texi
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "sparseimages ('gplot', 'eps');"

if [ -f gplot.eps ] ; then gs -dBATCH -dEPSCrop -dNOPAUSE -q - 
sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=gplot.pdf gplot.eps ; fi
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "sparseimages ('grid', 'eps');"

if [ -f grid.eps ] ; then gs -dBATCH -dEPSCrop -dNOPAUSE -q - 
sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=grid.pdf grid.eps ; fi
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "sparseimages ('spmatrix',  
'eps');"
error: invalid conversion from string to real N-d array
error: called from:
error:   /sw/src/fink.build/octave3.1.51-3.1.51-3/octave-3.1.51/ 
scripts/plot/__plt_get_axis_arg__.m at line 38, column 1
error:   /sw/src/fink.build/octave3.1.51-3.1.51-3/octave-3.1.51/ 
scripts/plot/axis.m at line 125, column 26
error:   /sw/src/fink.build/octave3.1.51-3.1.51-3/octave-3.1.51/doc/ 
interpreter/sparseimages.m at line 92, column 5
error:   /sw/src/fink.build/octave3.1.51-3.1.51-3/octave-3.1.51/doc/ 
interpreter/sparseimages.m at line 35, column 2

make[3]: *** [spmatrix.eps] Error 1
make[2]: *** [interpreter] Error 2
make[1]: *** [doc] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Ben