Re: plot and image demos (growing window)

[Ben Abbott]

On May 30, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Rik wrote:

> > > > On May 29, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Rik wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 5/29/09
> > > > >
> > > > > Ben,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no idea why it's failing but I at least have isolated  
> > > > > when the
> > > > > new behavior was introduced.  Using Mercurial's bisect command the
> > > > > growing window problem was introduced in changeset  
> > > > > 9098:5ecdb3d3568f.
> > > > >
> > > > > The log entry is:
> > > > > changeset:   9098:5ecdb3d3568f
> > > > > user:        Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> > > > > date:        Mon Apr 06 18:57:42 2009 -0400
> > > > > files:       scripts/ChangeLog scripts/plot/ 
> > > > > __gnuplot_default_font__.m
> > > > > scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m
> > > > > description:
> > > > > Allow fontsize to be specified for all objects with fontname ==  
> > > > > "*".
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried a simple fix of setting a default font before running 'for
> > > > > n=1:100; plot(1:1000); drawnow; end' but it didn't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > --Rik
> > > >
> > > > Rik,
> > > >
> > > > Strange ... most of this changeset was later reverted ... at least
> > > > in part.
> > > >
> > > >    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/25cdd6096442
> > > >
> > > > Regarding the bisect command, I'm unfamiliar with it. Can you show
> > > > me how to use it in this instance?
> > > >
> > > > Ben
> > >
> > > On second thought, I don't need to duplicate your work, all I really
> > > need is a copy of a working plot-stream to compare with the current
> > > one.;
> > >
> > > If you can run the last working version of octave, create a working
> > > plot stream ...
> > >
> > >    close all
> > >    plot (1:10)
> > >    drawnow ("x11", "/dev/null", false, "debug.gp")
> > >
> > > Then we can compare the result with the current sources to see what
> > > is different.
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > hmmm ... I'm not very confident in my understanding of mercurial, but
> > I did a
> >
> > hg revert --all -r 9097
> >
> > make clean
> > ./autogen
> > configure ...
> > make
> >
> > and then with gnuplot 4.2.5 ran
> >
> >    n=1:100; plot(1:1000); drawnow; end
> >
> > and the window still grows.
> >
> > Ben
> I used 'hg update -r 9097' but according to the documentation they
> should be equivalent.  I also used 'make distclean' to clean out not
> just the object files but any automatically generated configuration
> files.  I went ahead and did your exercise and collected two debug
> reports which I am attaching.
>
> --Rik

Thanks Rik. The only difference I see in the two files are in the  
beginning.

From 9097

> set terminal x11 enhanced title "Figure 1" ;
> set output "/dev/null";
>
> reset;
> set autoscale fix;


From the current tip

> set terminal x11 enhanced title "Figure 1"
> set output '/dev/null';
>
> reset;
> set autoscale keepfix;

The "output" is not relevant as it is not present when rendered to the  
screen.

However, when add both the remaining differences to the current  
sources the window still grows.

Rik, can you confirm that your build for 9097 did *not* produce a  
growing window when running a gnuplot 4.2.5 or 4.3.0?

Ben