Re: axes limit calculations

[Shai Ayal]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Aug 30, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:22 AM, Shai Ayal wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> However, switching to fltk appears to work ... well  almost. The plot
>>>> doesn't render properly.
>>>>
>>>> Can you elaborate on how it renders?
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps a picture says it best?
>>>>
>>>> octave:30> close all
>>>> octave:31> backend('fltk')
>>>> octave:32> x = 0:10;
>>>> octave:33> plot(x)
>>>>
>>>> To underlying windows each contribute to the result in a rather strange
>>>> way. The resulting figure includes various sections of my email client,
>>>> and
>>>> some things I don't recognize. In addition the following line is
>>>> displayed
>>>> in the terminal.
>>>>
>>>> octave:34> ca=nan
>>>>
>>>> A picture is attached.
>>>>
>>>> This looks like an OpenGL and/or fltk problem. The best way to debug
>>>> this
>>>> would be to run the ftlk-opengl test programs gl_overlay and glpuzzle
>>>> and
>>>> see if they work. You should have them in the test subdir of the fltk
>>>> sources. If you did not install fltk from source it's a problem :(
>>>
>>> I should have done this earlier, but better late than never. I reran the
>>> to
>>> test programs you recommended and can verify fltk appears to be
>>> functioning
>>> properly. Pictures attached.
>>>
>>> Ben
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>> So it's something in octave/fltk_backend. However since Michael can't
>> reproduce it (and it will take me ~1 day to compile octave with my
>> current machine), it seems to be something which is mac specific. Did
>> you try the fltk-config --post command on octave or fltk_backend.oct?
>>
>> Shai
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> Yes I did. No impact :-(
>
OK, I'm compiling now, so maybe I'll have something by tomorrow

Shai