Re: waterfall implementation

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I have a changeset ready to push that implements the function
>> waterfall (inspired by a question on the help list today). It's all
>> good, very simple function, except it doesn't work with gnuplot since
>> it relies on the "meshstyle" property which apparently doesn't work
>> with gnuplot. On gnuplot it will just look identical to meshz. Worth
>> pushing this anyway? Should I mention in the docstring that it won't
>> work with gnuplot? Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> mike
>
> I do not know if is it worth pushing or not (maybe fits in a Forge
> package?), but you can give a warning if gnuplot is the current
> graphics toolkit using
>
> if strcmpi ("gnuplot", graphics_toolkit ())
> warining ("Octave:matlab-incompatible", "This function does not
> produce the expected output with gnuplot as graphic toolkit.\n");
> endif

Good idea, I added something similar to that. I took out the
matlab-incompatible id because it seems to deal mostly with the
behavior of the parser. Someone can add an id if it makes sense to.

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/34a9a4e48f9b

-- 
mike