Re: demo syntax and using dump_demos to compare to ML

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 22, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Rik wrote:
> 
>> On 01/21/2012 04:47 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm only been comparing demos for the plot directory. So that should be 
>>> sufficient for now. I'll try to put together a changeset to add dump_demo.m 
>>> and its friends to the default branch. When I'm done I'll post it to the 
>>> list for comments.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> I checked in changes to make the plot directory demos Matlab compatible
>> (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4506eade9f04).
>> 
>> --Rik
> 
> Thanks Rik.
> 
> I pushed another minor changeset.
> 
>       http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/27abe77158d6
> 
> I'm able to run a modified version of Soren's dump_demos.m and produce the 
> images for each demo with both Octave and Matlab.
> 
> I've zipped the scripts I use to compare gnuplot, fltk, and matlab.
> 
> For anyone interested, just unzip the file, run Octave and type ...
> 
>       compare_plot_demos
> 
> I still need to cleanup the doc-strings and would like to modify the 
> html_compare_plot_demos function to allow the number of columns and the 
> associated toolits to be specified.
> 
> After that I'd like to add these to the sources. I'm thinking these can be 
> added to scripts/test, but an not sure if they should be listed in module.mk. 
> I've cc'd Soren, Jordi, and John in case they would like to comment before I 
> do something that may need to be undone.
> 
> Thoughts / Suggestions ?
> 
> Ben
> 
> <Archive.zip>

I've attached a preliminary changeset.

Ben

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