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bug #41396: existing figure is made visible even when property is set to 'off'

Submitted by:  Markus Appel <mappel>
Submitted on:  Wed 29 Jan 2014 08:16:28 PM UTC  
 
Category: PlottingSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Regression
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: 3.8.0Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Thu 30 Jan 2014 04:27:48 PM UTC, comment #3:

I applied your patch to the stable branch (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0f32b34f6ec0) ahead of the 3.8.1 release.

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Thu 30 Jan 2014 01:06:06 AM UTC, comment #2:

I see that part of the problem is that I tried to get us closer to Matlab compatibility (http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/figure.html), but they don't support the syntax

This is convenient for them because they don't have this problem.

I'll review your patch soon.

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Wed 29 Jan 2014 08:31:04 PM UTC, comment #1:

Patch attached. Make figure N visible unless explicitly asked not to.

(file #30418)

Markus Appel <mappel>
Wed 29 Jan 2014 08:16:28 PM UTC, original submission:

Some of my old plotting scripts crashed in 3.8 when executed via remote shell without window system, because figure(1,'visible','off') tries to open a figure window when the figure is already existent:

Seems like this was introduced in

Markus Appel <mappel>

 

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file #30418:  octave-fix-figure.patch added by mappel (1KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 30 Jan 2014 04:27:48 PM UTCrik5StatusPatch Submitted=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Thu 30 Jan 2014 01:06:06 AM UTCrik5StatusNone=>Patch Submitted
    Wed 29 Jan 2014 08:31:04 PM UTCmappelAttached File-=>Added octave-fix-figure.patch, #30418

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