Re: plot and image demos (growing window)

[Ben Abbott]

On May 29, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On May 29, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> > On May 29, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Rik wrote:
> >
> > > 5/29/09
> > >
> > > Ben,
> > >
> > > I have no idea why it's failing but I at least have isolated when  
> > > the
> > > new behavior was introduced.  Using Mercurial's bisect command the
> > > growing window problem was introduced in changeset  
> > > 9098:5ecdb3d3568f.
> > >
> > > The log entry is:
> > > changeset:   9098:5ecdb3d3568f
> > > user:        Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> > > date:        Mon Apr 06 18:57:42 2009 -0400
> > > files:       scripts/ChangeLog scripts/plot/ 
> > > __gnuplot_default_font__.m
> > > scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m
> > > description:
> > > Allow fontsize to be specified for all objects with fontname == "*".
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried a simple fix of setting a default font before running 'for
> > > n=1:100; plot(1:1000); drawnow; end' but it didn't work.
> > >
> > > --Rik
> >
> > Rik,
> >
> > Strange ... most of this changeset was later reverted ... at least  
> > in part.
> >
> >         http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/25cdd6096442
> >
> > Regarding the bisect command, I'm unfamiliar with it. Can you show  
> > me how to use it in this instance?
> >
> > Ben
>
> On second thought, I don't need to duplicate your work, all I really  
> need is a copy of a working plot-stream to compare with the current  
> one.;
>
> If you can run the last working version of octave, create a working  
> plot stream ...
>
>         close all
>         plot (1:10)
>         drawnow ("x11", "/dev/null", false, "debug.gp")
>
> Then we can compare the result with the current sources to see what  
> is different.
>
> Ben

hmmm ... I'm not very confident in my understanding of mercurial, but  
I did a

hg revert --all -r 9097

make clean
./autogen
configure ...
make

and then with gnuplot 4.2.5 ran

        n=1:100; plot(1:1000); drawnow; end

and the window still grows.

Ben