RE: Unresponsive figure windows

[Richardson, Anthony]

A Kelly [mailto:address@hidden wrote
> Subject: Unresponsive figure windows
> 
> I'm running Octave 3.2.4 (MinGW) which comes with gnupolot Version 4.4
> (patchlevel 0 octave-mingw32). All on Windows XP.
> 
> If I start gnuplot from MSYS and type "plot sin(x)" the resulting
> window
> responds to mouse movements (by changing the coordinates in the bottom
> left of the window). It also allows zooming (by selecting with the
> right-mouse button). So far, so good.
> 
> However, my Octave figure windows do not respond in this way. If I
> start
> the Octave  interpreter and type "figure" at octave prompt I get a
> figure window. But, moving my mouse around within it has no effect on
> the coordinates in the bottom left of the window.
> 
> As well, the Octave window appearance differs from the one in the
> gnuplot example. The gnuplot window has a toolbar. The Octave window
> does not. I can make the Octave window look the same as the gnuplot
one
> by defining the GNUTERM environment variable to be "wxt", but I stll
> can't zoom in the Octave window and its coordinates do not respond to
> mouse movements.
> 
> Can anyone please suggest why I'm getting different behaviour between
> gnuplot and Octave and how I can make the Octave windows more
> responsive.

Sounds like the oct2mat problem.  Try

   pkg unload oct2mat;

before issuing any plotting commands.  There is a related thread on the
mailing list.  I thought this used to be mentioned in the ChangeLog
link on the octaveforge site, but that link appears to be broken now.

Tony Richardson