Re: Plot window freezes

[Benjamin Lindner]

Leonard Wayne wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am running Octave for the first time.  
> When I issue this command
>
>     plot( 1:10 )
>
> the correct plot is generated, but then
> the plot window immediately freezes.  The
> cursor coordinates shown in the lower left
> part of the plot window do not update, and
> soon Windows reports the plot window is
> not responding.  Does anyone know what
> could be wrong?
>
> I used the Windows installer on Octave Forge.
> I am running Windows XP with Service Pack 3.
>
> Is gnuplot what Octave uses?  I have gnuplot
> installed separately under Cygwin where it 
> seems to work fine.

I cannot reproduce this error.

As a wild guess, maybe you are picking up a different version of gnuplot 
than the one shipped with the installer.

Can you post the result of calling "gnuplot_binary" ?

benjamin