plotting while preserving some properties

[Giovanni Di Stasi]

Hi,

I am using Octave and Gnuplot in order to draw a "moving" graph; I'm doing
that by calling repeatedly plot(X) and replot() with the new matrix; Between
a plot and the next, I'd like the title, the ylabel and the xlabel to be
preserved (without having to call title(...), xlabel(...) and ylabel(...)
every time). How can I do that?

Another question: I call my script from bash (I made it executable and put
#! /usr/bin/octave -qf at the beginning) and, as I said above, I have to call
both plot and replot (If I just call plot, the figure won't even show up),
whilst, in the Octave command line, plot is sufficient. Shouldn't plot be
enough in both cases?

Many thanks.

I'm using:
GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
Gnuplot Version 4.2 patchlevel 2

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[David Bateman-3]

Giovanni Di Stasi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using Octave and Gnuplot in order to draw a "moving" graph; I'm doing
> that by calling repeatedly plot(X) and replot() with the new matrix; Between
> a plot and the next, I'd like the title, the ylabel and the xlabel to be
> preserved (without having to call title(...), xlabel(...) and ylabel(...)
> every time). How can I do that?
>
> Another question: I call my script from bash (I made it executable and put
> #! /usr/bin/octave -qf at the beginning) and, as I said above, I have to call
> both plot and replot (If I just call plot, the figure won't even show up),
> whilst, in the Octave command line, plot is sufficient. Shouldn't plot be
> enough in both cases?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> I'm using:
> GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
> Gnuplot Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
>
>  

 
In the repository this can be done with something like

           x = 0:0.1:10;
           y = sin (x);
           plot (x, y, "ydatasource", "y");
           xlabel ("x");
           ylabel("y");
           title ("This is a moving plot");
           for i = 1 : 100
             pause(0.1)
             y = sin (x + 0.1 * i);
             refreshdata();
           endfor

though not in 3.0.x. For 3.0.x you can try something like

           x = 0:0.1:10;
           y = sin (x);
           h = plot (x, y);
           xlabel ("x");
           ylabel("y");
           title ("This is a moving plot");
           for i = 1 : 100
             drawnow ();
             pause(0.1)
             y = sin (x + 0.1 * i);
             set (h, "ydata", y);
           endfor

D.




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[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Giovanni Di Stasi
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Octave and Gnuplot in order to draw a "moving" graph; I'm doing
> that by calling repeatedly plot(X) and replot() with the new matrix; Between
> a plot and the next, I'd like the title, the ylabel and the xlabel to be
> preserved (without having to call title(...), xlabel(...) and ylabel(...)
> every time). How can I do that?

h = plot (...);
xlabel (...);
ylabel (...);
hold on;
drawnow ();
while (...)
  delete (h);
  h = plot (...);
  drawnow ();
endwhile

> Another question: I call my script from bash (I made it executable and put
> #! /usr/bin/octave -qf at the beginning) and, as I said above, I have to call
> both plot and replot (If I just call plot, the figure won't even show up),
> whilst, in the Octave command line, plot is sufficient. Shouldn't plot be
> enough in both cases?

No, because octave actually sends data to gnuplot on the next drawnow
call. This is called automatically before printing the octave prompt. When you
use octave in bash script, the prompt is never used, so you have to call
drawnow manually.

Michael.
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