Re: Octave.app 2.9.13 for Mac OS X

[Henry F. Mollet]

Replies inserted, Henry

on 7/29/07 7:56 AM, Vic Norton at address@hidden wrote:

> The new octave-2.9.13 app works for me too, Henry. Right out of the box.
> 
> I have gnuplot 4.2.0 installed, so I didn't install the gnuplot-4.2.0
> app.
> 
> A couple of curiosities.
> 
>     1. The older octave-2.9.12 app did not work with my gnuplot 4.2.0.
>        When I would try
>           octave-2.9.12> plot (rand(100,1))
>        I would get an error message:
>           terminal "dumb" does not support continuous colors
>        and an ascii plot in terminal.
> 

I don't have an answer and cannot test the problem. Gnuplot-4.0 had been
installed with octave-2.1.73. After installation of octave-2.9.12 app,
octave-2.9.12 found gnuplot-4.0 and plots appeared in AquaTerm window.

>        Now octave-2.9.13 app works the way I would like it to. The
>        command
>           octave-2.9.13> plot (rand(100,1))
>        opens up AquaTerm and draws a nice graph (with no error message).
> 
>     2. There do seem to some differences between the graph produced by
>        my unix installation of octave 2.9.9 and that produced by the
>        octave-2.9.13 app:
> 
>        The command
>           octave> plot(rand(100,1))                     (octave 2.9.9)
>        produces a Figure 0 with a "line 1" key in red (gnuplot line-type
>        1).
> 
>        The command
>           octave-2.9.13> plot(rand(100,1))         (octave-2.9.13 app)
>        produces a Figure 1 with no key in a light blue that does seem to
>        correspond to any line-type shown in the Figure 0 produced by
>           gnuplot> test
> 
I don't have an answer either but can confirm your result. I suggest that we
have to set the key in addition to solving the color "problem". When testing
the same using octave-2.1.73 I get a plot in red *with* a corresponding key.
The key must be set by default. In octave-2.1.73 I could unset/set the key
using "__gnuplot_set__ key off" and "__gnuplot_set__ key on". When I tried
the same in 2.9.13 (i.e. "__gnuplot_set__ key on")  I got no error but it
did not set the key either.


>        I'm not quite sure what is going on here. I guess some internal
>        octave parameters are set differently. I wonder what the default
>        line-type is in the octave-2.9.13 app. Perhaps I should install
>        the gnuplot-4.2.0 app that came with the octave-2.9.13 app
>        "Extras" and see what this does with "test". (I just did the
>        gnuplot-4.2.0 app installation. The "test" results are the same.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic
> 
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> 
>> Great; way to go on a Mac!
>> On an older iMac (however, OS X 10.4.10) with octave 2.1.73 in
>> /usr/local/bin and octave 2.9.12 in Application folder installed,
>> (plus
>> gnuplot 4.0 in /usr/local/bin), I trashed octave-2.9.12 application
>> and
>> installed both octave-2.9.13 app and gnuplot-4.2.0 app.
>> Installation was
>> quick and successful.
>> Henry
>> 
>> Last login: Sat Jul 28 18:19:31 on ttyp1
>> exec '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> Welcome to Darwin!
>> cut
>>  [~] -bash-2.05b 234$ exec
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave'
>> GNU Octave, version 2.9.13
>> 
>> octave-2.9.13:1> figure (1);plot (1:10);
>> octave-2.9.13:2> figure(2); plot (2:12);
>> octave-2.9.13:3> figure (1); hold on; plot (2:13); hold off;
>> octave-2.9.13:4> which gnuplot
>> which: `gnuplot' is undefined
>> # However, terminal window title had changed from octave-2.9.13 to
>> #gnuplot-4.2.0 and plots appeared in AquaTerm windows.
>> 
>> octave-2.9.13:5> quit
>> [Process completed]
>> 
>> Last login: Sat Jul 28 18:19:34 on ttyp2
>> exec '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
>> Welcome to Darwin!
>> 
>>  [~] -bash-2.05b 235$ exec
>> '/Applications/GnuPlot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot'
>> 
>>         G N U P L O T
>>         Version 4.2 patchlevel 0
>>         last modified March 2007
>>         System: Darwin 8.10.0
>> 
>> cut
>> 
>> Terminal type set to 'aqua'
>> gnuplot> plot sin(x)
>> gnuplot>
>> 
>> 
>> on 7/28/07 8:47 AM, Thomas Treichl at address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just uploaded Octave.app 2.9.13 to the sourceforge's server.
>>> Some of the
>>> most
>>> recent changes against Octave.app 2.9.12 are:
>>> 
>>> - the latest Octave 2.9.13 codes available have been used to
>>> create the
>>> binaries.
>>> 
>>> - the name octave.app changed to Octave.app (links that point to
>>> octave.app or
>>> to another file within octave.app may be broken because of the
>>> upper-case
>>> letter
>>> at the beginning). Future versions of Octave.app will also start
>>> with an
>>> upper-case letter...
>>> 
>>> - a pre-release version of Gnuplot.app is in the dmg. Read the
>>> Readme.html
>>> file
>>> of octave-2.9.13-XXX.dmg about 'when to set it up' and 'how to set
>>> it up for
>>> Octave'. Other details are in the Readme.html file of
>>> gnuplot-4.2.0-XXX.dmg.
>>> 
>>> That's it from my side,
>>> 
>>>    Thomas
>>> 
>>> 
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