Re: strange fltk behavior after changeset 4f112bebd474

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:37 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  3-Nov-2011, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | I'm seeing some strange results when plotting with FLTK on MacOS. After the
> | changeset below.
> | 
> | http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4f112bebd474
> | 
> | The figure window on the screen changes when the figure's position property 
> is
> | modified.
> | 
> | close all
> | graphics_toolkit fltk
> | figure (1)
> | plot (rand (2))
> | 
> | I've attached initial.png to show what I see at this point.
> | 
> | p = get (gcf, "position");
> | set (gcf, "position", p*2);
> | set (gcf, "position", p);
> | 
> | After modifying the position and returning to the default values I see
> | modified.png.
> | 
> | This second one still looks suspicious to me. I think the axes plot box is
> | elevate by the height of the toolbar at the bottom of the window.
> 
> I don't see the extra gray bar at the bottom of the first window, and
> setting the size to twice the original then back also seems to work
> correctly for me.
> 
> I'm using Debian and fltk is
> 
>  ii  libfltk1.1     1.1.10-7       Fast Light Toolkit - shared libraries
>  ii  libfltk1.1-dev 1.1.10-7       Fast Light Toolkit - development files
> 
> jwe

I had seen a similar behavior when using the Fink package manager. 
Unfortunately, we were never able to track down the problem, and it disappeared 
when I switched to MacPorts.

I still have a fink installation. I'll pull and build there and see how that 
behaves.

Ben