Re: Octave GUI problem

[John Frain]

I think that I have the same of a similar problem.  When I start the GUI the information given is

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Octave was configured for "x86_64-w64-mingw32".

The final output of  "x=stdnormal_rnd(20,20)" is

 -0.5071175   2.0212591   1.0977066  -1.5492895   0.2229782  -1.5751473  -0.8917747   1.0316394
  -0.3020511   0.5660279   0.1917780  -2.7863851   0.1117779  -1.1390506   0.4640756  -1.3605241
  -1.0013740  -0.6139292   0.1698321   1.8999740   2.9440728   0.3014753   0.8597002  -0.7044143
   1.5422238   1.5588169   0.9049844  -0.6155211  -0.6110741  -0.9330103   1.2171333  -0.6182157
   2.0467543   0.3916617  -1.3540282   1.0336803   1.3979694  -0.8097340   0.4065264   0.0384822
   0.4897608  -0.5322758   0.4656164   0.2083696  -0.0982116  -0.3106091   0.8375368   0.6666530
  -0.1117129  -1.0278813   0.3700927   1.0672237  -0.9221276  -1.2300558   0.8939844  -0.0816770
   1.7308836   1.4278063   0.4773576  -1.0579233  -0.5721402   0.4291090  -0.8152522  -1.6280435
  -0.8723491  -0.0170557  -2.2736346   0.7344170  -0.3057234   0.9746939   1.0071471   1.7954628
   1.5386749   0.5734278   0.4204530  -2.1254005   0.0497178  -0.1006332  -2.1310166   1.5796352
  -1.3189749  -0.2853495   0.2415199  -1.2738162  -1.6659748  -1.1269541  -0.9695211  -0.3169229
  -1.4124523   0.5344011   0.2127735  -0.1636381   0.4805168  -0.8832088  -1.4043657  -1.0057125
   0.8762459  -0.7625823   2.5240991   1.3885036  -0.3228637  -0.3259997   0.4815191  -0.3117506
  -0.0164904   2.6818759   0.8540531   0.6604291  -1.6122261   0.9722769  -2.0688050   0.3225872

 Columns 17 through 20:

   1.3063198   0.0211766  -1.4847241  -0.4407321
  -0.1101884   1.6420025  -0.2556876   0.2947284
  -0.4355305  -0.0614033   0.3759141  -2.1775700
  -0.1662598   0.2219890   1.3573565  -0.0524558
  -0.5652157   2.1112308  -0.9583461  -0.5555533
  -0.1326236   0.0513164  -0.2564830  -0.1459277
   0.3560135   0.0780937   0.4363457   0.6053119
   0.8680055   0.9055930   1.1360504  -0.6552035
  -0.1540604  -1.5623717   1.3416044   1.2786675
   0.0217545  -1.2774380  -0.7207968  -0.4999285
   1.2510553   0.8361230  -0.3584785   0.0656612
  -0.4697412   0.2055160   0.0311431  -0.5230802
  -0.0419971  -0.4413179   0.9437012  -0.7651217
  -0.5266909  -1.0967953  -0.4648180  -0.2155527
  -0.8469190   0.6083211   0.4692413  -0.5533419
   0.7991830   0.1507177   0.6732987   1.0718811
   0.7905973  -1.2043146  -1.0006518   1.5386856
   0.1836491  -0.3252284  -0.6613119   0.6343912
   0.1126457   0.9173450  -0.4188160  -1.3427819
  -1.1248350   0.0802026   0.7198008  -0.3924331

>>

When I try to scroll back to see the early values the screen will not scroll back.  Scrolling works with the command line interface.
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On 16 January 2018 at 20:42, Ian McCallion <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can anyone help? When using octave-gui.exe the command window cannot
> be scrolled up so that the flashing cursor goes below the bottom of
> the window.
>
> This a a new behaviour since the latest windows 10 update and occurs
> on at least 5 octave versions since 3.8.2.
>
> If this is the wrong list for this sort of question I apologise and
> would appreciate a pointer the the right list.
>
> Cheers... Ian
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