Re: volunteer to test patch for Octave on Windows ?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:23 AM, nitnit <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> bpabbott wrote
>>
>> I have a patch on the tracker I'd like to test. Its purpose is to allow
>> the gnuplot figure position to be set the by figure's positon property.
>>
>>       figure (1, "posiiton", ...)
>>
>> As you mentioned you have 3.6.1 built and running on Windows, can I impose
>> on you to test the patch for he bug below ?
>>
>>       https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35072
>>
>> On the other hand, I'm happy to do that myself, but don't have an Octave
>> install on my VBOX Windows 7. Is there a way I can download your binary
>> installer for 3.6.1 ?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
> I have tried the patch on the installed scripts in my recent mingw
> octave-3.6.1 and it seems that gnuplot plots are now positioned with
> defaults (didnwt function before), the position can be read (get...) but
> when changed (set...), it doesn't change the actual plot position !
>
> You can test this yourself with my mingw version (see
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/3-6-1-mingw-binaries-for-testing-td4422532.html)
>
> Regards
> Nitzan

Same here. I've update my gnuplot to 4.4.4. Figure is positioned as
default and you can change that at figure creation, but specifying the
position property, like:

figure('position', [10 10 600 600])
sombrero

But changing the position of a visible figure does not work.

Michael.