[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41396] existing figure is made visible even when property is set to 'off'

[Markus Appel]

URL:
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                 Summary: existing figure is made visible even when property
is set to 'off'
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mappel
            Submitted on: Wed 29 Jan 2014 08:16:28 PM GMT
                Category: Plotting
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Some of my old plotting scripts crashed in 3.8 when executed via remote shell
without window system, because figure(1,'visible','off') tries to open a
figure window when the figure is already existent:


octave:1> figure(1,'visible','off')
% No window opened
octave:2> get(gcf,'visible')
ans = off

octave:3> figure(1,'visible','off')
% Existing figure 1 now made visible despite explicit property setting
octave:4> get(gcf,'visible')
ans = on


Seems like this was introduced in

# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <address@hidden>
# Date 1375381132 25200
# Node ID 603ce503babd69b55bf9eecbb9386cc1f4fa0fc2
# Parent  e4968b4613a52c8219af7b9d4cd2826f26afdcfe
figure.m: Overhaul function.  When switching to figure N make it visible.





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