#86 "p" octave examples not ready for prime time

[Alan W. Irwin]

There now exists a special configured script called test_octave_interactive.sh which is run from plplot-test.sh whenever the --interactive_octave option is used with an interactive device option. The test_octave_xwin, test_octave_xcairo, test_octave_qtwidget, and test_octave_wxwidgets targets run this script for a range of "p" examples given in test_octave_interactive.sh(,in). Currently, the test_octave_qtwidget target works the best. However, even for that target the following "p" examples had to be excluded for the given reasons.

# 11 (many invalid limits);
# 12 (hangs);
# 14 (looks pretty to start but then segfaults);
# 17 (error: plrb: device is not xor capable, occurs for qtwidget);
# 18 (pthread_mutex_lock.c:285:)
# 19 (failed to exit properly for qtwidget, but wxwidgets was fine);
# 20 (failed to exit properly for qtwidget and wxwidgets)

Comments for devices other than qtwidget:

test_octave_xcairo panifully slow (issue reported previously for example 17 as bug 2960406 and therefore not anything to do with octave).

test_octave_xwin errors out (for any example) with
*** PLPLOT ERROR, IMMEDIATE EXIT ***
Can't open display
Program aborted

test_octave_wxwidgets seems to work fine on single examples, but segfaults whenever any second example is tested.

[Andrew Ross]

Some progress has been made towards fixing this.

Many of the problems were due to drivers not support plGetCursor. This has been fixed for xcairo and qtwidget. There are still a few issues with xor mode only being support with xwin / tk.

There is also an issue with the animation in example p14 with octave3.2.