Re: testing binary of octave-3.3.90 (mingw32 of which ) is uploaded

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello Ben
> --- Ben Abbott  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:55 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> I have uploaded the testing binary of octave-3.3.90 (mingw32).
>>> 
>>> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/
>>> 
>>> This binary is for testing purpose for preparing octave ver. 3.4.
>>> 
>>> Feedback is welcome to the octave ML.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Tatsuro
>> 
>> I was hoping to use Tatsuro's binary to test/debug printing under mingw. 
>> 
>> I have a Windows 7 install via VirtualBox.
>> 
>> I do not have mingw or cygwin installed.
>> 
>> Octave runs, but hangs with ...
>> 
>>      graphics_toolkit fltk
>>      surf (peaks)
>> 
>> ... the plot window never shows up.
>> 
>> I also encounter a hang with the gnuplot backend.
>> 
>>      graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>>      surf (peaks)
>> 
>> I tried running gnuplot directly and found the terminal would default to 
>> "wxt". Plotting with
>> the wxt terminal caused gnuplot to hang. If the terminal is set to "windows" 
>> then gnuplot works.
>> However, I still encounter a hang with ...
>> 
>>      graphics_toolkit gnuplot
>>      setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows")
>>      surf (peaks)
>> 
>> Advice on what I need to do to enable plotting would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> The binary was made on window XP but it runs correctly on my netbook OS of 
> which is windows 7.  In
> gnuplot_drawnow.m, windows terminal is set as default.
> 
> Does gnuplot work by itself? For fltk graphics_toolkit, dll file seems to be 
> loaded dynamically.
> Is the below the help for you ? 
> 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/testing-binary-of-octave-3-3-90-mingw32-is-uploaded-tp3243897p3245550.html
> 
> Anyway I appreciate you to try my binary.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro

I'm now able to run Windows 7 via VirtualBox (stopped working, then started 
again ... I have no idea why).

The best part is that plotting now works with both backends.

One thing I did different this time was to start octave from the DOS command 
shell. Previously I started Octave by double-click with the mouse.

When I have time, I'll experiment with the printing. I hope to be find a 
standard way to open a pipe. For unix, I open a pipe to "cat" and then pipe the 
result to a file or to another program. Under DOS I don't have a standard 
solution yet.

Ben