Re: plot and image demos (growing window)

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-May-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| This looks like a feature of gnuplot. When a subsequent "set term  
| x11 ..." command is encountered before the prior plot-stream completes  
| there appears to be some unintended interaction between gnuplot and  
| x11 which causes the window to grow.
| 
| For example, try ...
| 
|       for n=1:100; plot(1:1000); drawnow; end
| 
| Adding the command "unset mouse" the the beginning of the plot-stream  
| eliminates the problem. Shall a "unset mouse" be added to be beginning  
| of each plot-stream? (changeset attached) ... If desired a "set mouse"  
| may added at the end of the plot-stream. Unfortunately, I don't know  
| of a good way to detect the state of "set/unset mouse". We could  
| obtain the x11 window ID and ask x11 for the window size while  
| toggling the mouse state, but is it worth the hassle?

No, I don't think it is worth it.

Even unset mouse/set mouse might not be worth it.  Is there an easy
way to demonstrate this bug with a simple gnuplot script?  If so, then
I'd say report it as a bug in gnuplot and we should not bother to work
around it in Octave.

jwe