Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jul 27, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Ben, Mike,
> 
> The scripts that generate the images are m-files in doc/interpreter.  They
> all have a subfunction called set_graphics_toolkit() which is shown below.
> 
> -- Start of Code --
> ## This function no longer sets the graphics toolkit; That is now done
> ## automatically by C++ code which will ordinarily choose 'qt', but might
> ## choose gnuplot on older systems.  Only a complete lack of plotting is a
> ## problem.
> function set_graphics_toolkit ()
>  if (isempty (available_graphics_toolkits ()))
>    error ("no graphics toolkit available for plotting");
>  endif
> endfunction
> -- End of Code --
> 
> This could be modified to check for the presence of OSMESA and attempt to
> use gnuplot if it is not present.
> 
> This check works for me
> 
> if (octave_config_info ().features.OSMESA)
> ...
> endif
> 

Rik/Mike/Others,

Does the attached patch look ok?

Ben

backup_osmesa_with_gnuplot.patch
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