Re: Plotting status in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:21 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 22-Oct-2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
| >
| > | VTK is nice, but it is "just" another frontend to OpenGL. MathGL right
| > | now is being maintained, it already has an Octave interface too, and
| > | it seems to already be able to do all the things that Octaviz can do.
| > | I don't know if what Shai and Michael are working does 3d graphics.
| >
| > Yes, it does.  To start, you should build the current development
| > sources of Octave and run
| >
| >  __init_fltk__ ();
| >  set (gcf (), "__backend__", "fltk");
| >  sombrero ();
| 
| you can also type
| 
| backend('fltk');
| sombrero

I updated the comment about initialization in fltk_backend.cc.

Thanks,

jwe