Re: FLTK testing from MacOS user requested

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 18, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Andreas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:

> Can some Mac user test if the hack in figure.m:66
> 
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/9e6ec5f55827/scripts/plot/figure.m#l67
> is still needed with a recent build from the default branch or if lines
> 66 to 73 and 75 can be removed.
> 
> The bug report and reason for this is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31931
> 
> Thanks, Andy

With ...

$ hg id
9609f345823e+ tip @

and ...

$ hg diff
diff --git a/scripts/plot/util/figure.m b/scripts/plot/util/figure.m
--- a/scripts/plot/util/figure.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/util/figure.m
@@ -83,16 +83,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (init_new_figure)
-    if (ismac () && strcmp (graphics_toolkit (), "fltk"))
-      ## FIXME: Hack for fltk-aqua to work around bug #31931
-      f = __go_figure__ (f);
-      drawnow ();
-      if (! isempty (varargin))
-        set (f, varargin{:});
-      endif
-    else
-      f = __go_figure__ (f, varargin{:});
-    endif
+    f = __go_figure__ (f, varargin{:});
     __add_default_menu__ (f);
   elseif (nargs > 0)
     set (f, varargin{:});

The following commands now work for me.

graphics_toolkit ("fltk");
figure (1, "visible", "off")
set (gcf, "visible", "on")

Ben