Re: Help with saveas and fltk

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Rick Cox wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 5:11 PM
> To: Rick M. Cox
> Cc: 'help-octave Octave'
> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
> 
> On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Rick M. Cox wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
>> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 1:19 AM
>> To: Rick M. Cox
>> Cc: 'help-octave Octave'
>> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Rick M. Cox wrote:
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
>>>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 9:17 PM
>>>> To: Rick M. Cox
>>>> Cc: help-octave Octave
>>>> Subject: Re: Help with saveas and fltk
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Rick M. Cox wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok. The problem can be fixed by installing Octave using a path with no
>>>>>> spaces in it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There may be other solutions.  If so, perhaps a windows user can offer
>>>>> some
>>>>>> help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ben:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I will install Octave using a path with no spaces in it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am curious.  Are my problems peculiar to "fltk"?  "gnuplot" performs
>>>>>> flawlessly with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give it even though
>>>>> Octave
>>>>>> is currently in a path with white spaces.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also, do I need to install Ghostscript in a directory with no spaces?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rick
>>>>> 
>>>>> For eps output, I would expect a problem with both fltk and gnuplot.
> If
>>> you
>>>>> are comfortable trying to debug the problem, I can offer some
>>> suggestions.
>>>>> Also be sure the "relpy-all".  There may be some other windows users
> who
>>>>> have already resolved this problem on the mail-list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ben
>>>> 
>>>> Ben:
>>>> 
>>>> I installed Octave to a path with no white spaces with "fltk" as the
>>> default
>>>> graphics package.  All 'print' and 'saveas' commands fail in exactly the
>>>> same way they did when Octave was in a path with white spaces.
> Apparently
>>>> this does not fix my problem.
>>>> 
>>>> To summarize:
>>>> 'gnuplot' works flawlessly with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give
>>>> Octave whether it is in a path with a white space or not.
>>>> 
>>>> 'fltk' fails with any 'print' or 'saveas' command I give Octave whether
> it
>>>> is in a path with a white space or not.  In these cases either nothing
>>>> happens (no file is saved) or the figure window becomes unresponsive,
>>> Octave
>>>> displays: 'D:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external
>>> command,
>>>> 
>>>> operable program or batch file and then becomes unresponsive as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Rick
>>> 
>>> To determine what is happening please edit __print_fltk__.m and remove
> the
>>> semicolon from the end of line 149.  The resulting line is below.
>>> 
>>> opts.pipeline = pipeline
>>> 
>>> It you don't know where to find this file, type the command below in
> Octave.
>>> 
>>>     strrep (which ('plot'), 'plot.m', sprintf
>>> ('private%s__print_fltk__.m', filesep))
>>> 
>>> Once the semicolon has been removed from the end of line 149, try ...
>>> 
>>>     close all
>>>     graphics_toolkit fltk
>>>     plot (rand (3))
>>>     plot -depsc test.eps
>>> 
>>> And copy-n-paste everything that octave prints in its windows into your
>>> replay to this email.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>>> <Octave.doc>
>> 
>> Ben:
>> 
>> I installed Ghostscript to a path without any white spaces and tried my
>> plot.  As usual Octave crashed.
>> 
>> I captured the diagnostics with Print Screen and placed them in the
> attached
>> Word document.  Hopefully you can find what you need.  Also, the screen
>> capture shows my scrambled figure window if that is of help.
>> 
>> Rick
> 
> 
> I expected to see something beginning with "D:\Programs ", but don't see any
> indication in the output.  Unfortunately, I don't have any further
> suggestions.
> 
> Ben
> 
> p.s. A couple of minor points of etiquette, (1) please bottom post (reply at
> the bottom of the email and not the top).  This makes it more convenient to
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> a microsoft word document should be avoided.
> 
> 
> Ben:
> 
> Thanks for the help.  Where does this leave me?  Is there someone you can
> refer me to?
> 
> I guess I can use gnuplot for output but it is so slow that it renders
> Octave almost unusable for my purposes.
> 
> Rick


At this point, it looks to me as if Octave is working correctly.  I had 
expected that the path to ghostscript would have started with D:\Programs, but 
it does not.  And I've run out of ideas.

Hopefully, someone running Windows will have some insight and offer a 
suggestion.

Ben