Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 38, Issue 56

[Ben Abbott]

On May 31, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Rik wrote:

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>> Subject:
>> Re: plot and image demos (growing window)
>> From:
>> Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com>
>> Date:
>> Sat, 30 May 2009 03:13:39 -0400
>> To:
>> Rik <rdrider0-list at yahoo.com>
>>
>> To:
>> Rik <rdrider0-list at yahoo.com>
>> CC:
>> octave-maintainers at octave.org
>>
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>> Thanks Rik. The only difference I see in the two files are in the  
>> beginning.
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>> From 9097
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>>> set terminal x11 enhanced title "Figure 1" ; set output "/dev/null";
>>> reset; set autoscale fix;
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>> From the current tip
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>>> set terminal x11 enhanced title "Figure 1" set output '/dev/null';
>>> reset; set autoscale keepfix;
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>> The "output" is not relevant as it is not present when rendered to  
>> the screen.
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>> However, when add both the remaining differences to the current  
>> sources the window still grows.
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>> Rik, can you confirm that your build for 9097 did *not* produce a  
>> growing window when running a gnuplot 4.2.5 or 4.3.0?
> The problem definitely seems to be gnuplot related.  For gnuplot  
> version
> 4.2.2, revision 9097 works.  For gnuplot version 4.2.5, revision 9097
> fails.  4.3 won't compile on my Hardy Heron box.  I suppose we could  
> try
> to work-around their bug if we could figure out how we are  
> triggering it
> or we will simply have to let it pass as being outside of Octave.
>
> --Rik

Rik,

Thanks for confirming the relation to gnuplot. If this behavior can be  
produced without using Octave we should file a bug report. Other than  
that, I plan to leave it alone.

Ben