setting position of fltk figure windows

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Nov-2011, John W. Eaton wrote:

| Using the current development sources, neither of the following
| functions are setting the position of the figure window.  Can anyone
| else duplicate this behavior?
| 
|   function f ()
|     figure ("position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
|     drawnow ();
|   endfunction
| 
|   function g ()
|     h = figure ();
|     set (h, "position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
|     drawnow ();
|   endfunction
| 
|   graphics_toolkit fltk
|   f ()
|   g ()
| 
| However, executing the following at the command line does work:
| 
|   h = figure ();
|   set (h, "position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
| 
| provided that the figure is drawn before the set command is executed.
| So neither of the following are working for me either:
| 
|   h = figure (); set (h, "position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
| 
|   figure ("position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
| 
| Ah, OK, the following does work (well, apparently only sometimes; or
| maybe only for the first plot window after setting the graphics
| toolkit to fltk):
| 
|   function g ()
|     h = figure ();
|     drawnow ();
|     set (h, "position", [200, 400, 400, 50]);
|   endfunction
| 
| But even if this way did work reliably, it makes a larger window flash
| on the screen before it is resized and moved.  And in any case,
| shouldn't any of these work?  And shouldn't I be able to set the size
| of the window before it is drawn?
| 
| To confuse things even more, gnuplot behaves differently, of course.

Never mind.  I checked in the following change to fix it for fltk:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/718f78b01de1

I think there is still a problem with the way gnuplot is working
though.

jwe