Re: regression for legend()

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Rik wrote:

> On 11/23/2011 06:29 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:17 AM, logari81 wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 11/22/2011 10:36 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>>>> I would like to focus on making the 3.6.0 release soon.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you know of important problems that should be fixed, please make
>>>>>> sure they are in the bug tracker and listed with a serverity of
>>>>>> important or blocker.  That way we can sort the list of reported bugs
>>>>>> by severity and work on the most important bugs first.  But please
>>>>>> don't tag every problem that you would like to see fixed as a blocker,
>>>>>> as that would not be not helpful.  Here are some guidelines to decide
>>>>>> whether a problem should be tagged with blocker or important severity:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  * the problem is a regression (i.e., the feature worked in a
>>>>>>    previous version of Octave)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  * the problem causes a crash that can be duplicated on multiple
>>>>>>    systems and is something that is likely to affect many users.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  * the problem leads to incorrect results, can be duplicated on
>>>>>>    multiple systems, and is likely to affect many users.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> jwe
>>>> I have just found a regression in the fltk backend. Legend text will not 
>>>> show up with the current default branch:
>>>> 
>>>> octave:1> graphics_toolkit fltk
>>>> octave:2> plot(0:5,0:5)
>>>> octave:3> legend('test text')
>>>> 
>>>> if this is confirmed and no one else is available for fixing it, I will do 
>>>> it before the 3.6 release.
>>>> 
>>>> Kostas
>> Your example works for me on MacOS with fltk-1.1.10-aqua
>> 
>> However, I notice that some of the diplaynames are missing when running 
>> demos. This is not repeatable. When running the demos a second time, I see 
>> different missing displaynames.
>> 
>> Ben
> However, I can confirm the problem on a Linux build from today (11/23/11)
> so it is real for some platforms.
> 
> --Rik

I've also tested legend() on Ubuntu 10.04.

With the 3D acceleration for VirtualBox turned off, everything works as it 
should.

With the 3D acceleration turned nearly all the text objects are rendered as 
black boxes (including the legend names, the xlabel, and ylabel).

Ben