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[Fernando Perez Quintián]

Hi,
Does anybody know how to zoom in Octave?
Thanks in advance, Fernando

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[Francesco Potortì]

>Does anybody know how to zoom in Octave?

What platform?  How did you get Octave and installed it?  Have you
searched the archives for the "zoom" keyword?

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[Fernando Perez Quintián]

Kubuntu 9.04. 
I have installed Octave through the KPackageKit installer.
I didn't know it could depend on these things.

The answer I get from Octave to the command "help zoom" is:

zoom ...
  Compatibility function; does nothing
/usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.5/zoom.m

2009/4/29 Francesco Potorti` <[hidden email]>

>Does anybody know how to zoom in Octave?

What platform?  How did you get Octave and installed it?  Have you
searched the archives for the "zoom" keyword?

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[Francesco Potortì]

>The answer I get from Octave to the command "help zoom" is:
>
>zoom ...
>  Compatibility function; does nothing
>/usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.5/zoom.m

I did not know of such a function.  What you can do in the Gnuplot
window is to right-click twice on the plot window: the two points where
you click define a rectangular window which is then zoomed.  You revert
to the 1:1 zoom by clicking the 'a' key.

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[Rob Mahurin]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

>> The answer I get from Octave to the command "help zoom" is:
>>
>> zoom ...
>>  Compatibility function; does nothing
>> /usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.5/zoom.m
>
> I did not know of such a function.  What you can do in the Gnuplot
> window is to right-click twice on the plot window: the two points  
> where
> you click define a rectangular window which is then zoomed.  You  
> revert
> to the 1:1 zoom by clicking the 'a' key.

You can also use
        axis()
or
        set(gca,"xlim",[low high]) and set(gca,"ylim",[low high])
from the Octave prompt.

Rob

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[Fernando Perez Quintián]

Francesco: the "right-click twice" doesn't work in my case, I don't know why.
Rob: OK, thanks,  but I was looking for a mouse-interactive zoom

2009/4/30 Rob Mahurin <[hidden email]>

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

The answer I get from Octave to the command "help zoom" is:

zoom ...
 Compatibility function; does nothing
/usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.5/zoom.m

I did not know of such a function.  What you can do in the Gnuplot
window is to right-click twice on the plot window: the two points where
you click define a rectangular window which is then zoomed.  You revert
to the 1:1 zoom by clicking the 'a' key.

You can also use
       axis()
or
       set(gca,"xlim",[low high]) and set(gca,"ylim",[low high])
from the Octave prompt.

Rob

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[Rob Mahurin]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Fernando Perez Quintián wrote:
> Francesco: the "right-click twice" doesn't work in my case, I don't  
> know
> why.
> Rob: OK, thanks,  but I was looking for a mouse-interactive zoom


To use mouse-interactive zoom, your gnuplot must have "zooming for  
dynamic data" enabled.  The gnuplot in the current kubuntu is new  
enough to have this feature, but it might not have been enabled.

You can compile gnuplot yourself, or file a bug against kubuntu.

Rob

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[Francesco Potortì]

>To use mouse-interactive zoom, your gnuplot must have "zooming for  
>dynamic data" enabled.  The gnuplot in the current kubuntu is new  
>enough to have this feature, but it might not have been enabled.
>
>You can compile gnuplot yourself, or file a bug against kubuntu.

Sorry, yes, I had forgotten all this...

I use a gnuplot packaged for Debian from a gnuplot's snapshot.  It
should also work in Ubuntu or Kubuntu.  Its version number is set at
4.3.0 and it works with mouse zooming with the latest Octave versions.
The last changelog entry has date 2008-11-21.  If people want it, I can
put it on a public server.

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[r-28]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Rob Mahurin <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Fernando Perez Quintián wrote:
>> Francesco: the "right-click twice" doesn't work in my case, I don't
>> know
>> why.
>> Rob: OK, thanks,  but I was looking for a mouse-interactive zoom
>
> To use mouse-interactive zoom, your gnuplot must have "zooming for
> dynamic data" enabled.  The gnuplot in the current kubuntu is new
> enough to have this feature, but it might not have been enabled.

The feature is marked experimental and is not enabled by default in
gnuplot  (even in version 4.3.0). Apparently gnuplot in ubuntu is
compiled without this option.

> You can compile gnuplot yourself, or file a bug against kubuntu.

Build gnuplot with:
./configure --enable-volatile-data <other parameters>
make
sudo make install

and if necessary change the gnuplot's path in octave with:
gnuplot_binary ("/usr/local/bin/gnuplot")

Having said that, the feature does feel experimental. When there are
several subplots in one plot window only the last one responds to
interactive commands. Also, if gnuplot encounters an error (like
enabling log axis with "L" key for data with values <=0) all
subsequent interactive operations will be disabled:
"line 6009: warning: refresh not possible and replot is disabled"

One more tip for those lacking intuition like me, ;-) pressing "h" in
the plot window causes some basic help information to be printed out
to the octave console.

-r.

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