Re: [OctDev] Octave/Gnuplot: set terminal windows

[Greg <ewa...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Martin Helm <ma...@mh...> wrote:

> Am 05.10.2012 16:51, schrieb Greg:
> > Hello again for my second question of the day:
> >
> > I'm trying to use Gnuplot with Octave. After quite a big number of
> > tries, I found this funny thing:
> >
> > The command "peaks" typed in Octave compiled with Microsoft Visual
> > uses the 'wxt' terminal, wheras the Octave compiled with MinGW uses
> > the 'windows' terminal.
> >
> > The situation is the following: I need to use the Microsoft Visual
> > package, but I want the 'windows' terminal of Gnuplot.
> >
> > I have created a GNUPLOT.INI in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming with
> > the single line "set terminal windows". It works because after that,
> > running directly Gnuplot and typing "plot sin(x)" uses the 'windows'
> > terminal.
> >
> > And the problem is that the "peaks" command still runs Gnuplot with
> > the 'wxt' terminal. It seems that Gnuplot ignores this config file
> > when called by Octave.
> >
> > How to change this behaviour and use the 'windows' terminal when
> > plotting from Octave?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Greg
> >
> you set that within octave by
>
> setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows");
>
> you may want to add this command to your .octaverc file, I do not know
> where this is located on windows (on Linux it is in /home/username so I
> guess in windows it is something like c:\user\username)
>
>
Thanks, it just works!

Have a good day!


Greg