Re: Octave on Windows

[Benjamin Lindner]

Ying-Foon Chow wrote:
> Many thanks for your promt replies. I should have asked my question more
> specifically (since the "program" I stated was not that interesting):
>  
> Is there anything on gnuplot (or graphics capabilities) that I should be
> careful when I install Octave for Windows? It seems that I need not
> choose anything like before (jhandle?), right?

Currently jhandles is not bundled with 3.2.3, so there is only the
gnuplot plotting backend.

> My computer is running Windows XP on Intel Core 2 Duo, and it seems that
> I cannot get the plot (with wgnuplot?) to work properly whether I
> install Octave 3.0.5, 3.2.2, or 3.2.3. On the other hand, when I install
> Octave 3.2.3 on an older machine (also Windos XP, but the "usual" CPU),
> I have no problem in plotting.
>  
> Hope this describes my question and thanks again for any light.

Octave uses gnuplot.exe, not wgnuplot.exe. The former is the console
version of gnuplot and the latter a windows-gui version.

I am running a Core i7 and a P4E machine do not see problems with
gnuplot and octave 3.2.3 on both cpus.

Can you post the output of gnuplot_binary() after you started octave?

Does gnuplot itself run? You can check this by executing
 gnuplot.exe
from within your octave installation path.

benjamin