[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#492078: octave3.0: cannot change axes location in pcolor

[David Bateman <adb014@gmail.com>]

Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> package octave3.0
> tags 492078 upstream
> stop
> 
> Dear Octave maintainers,
> 
> The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian 
> package and regards the upstream sources.  The report is recorded at
> http://bugs.debian.org/492078
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Package: octave3.0
> Version: 1:3.0.1-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> octave> pcolor(1:2,3:4,[5 6;7 8])
> octave> set(gca, "xaxislocation", "top")	# X axis disappears
> octave> set(gca, "xaxislocation", "bottom")     # X axis reappears
> octave> set(gca, "xaxislocation", "top")	# X axis disappears
> octave> set(gca, "xaxislocation", "bottom")     # X axis reappears
> octave> set(gca, "yaxislocation", "right")      # Y axis disappears
> octave> set(gca, "yaxislocation", "left"))      # Y axis reappears
> 
>

Ok this is a real bug and is present in both 3.0.1+ and 3.1.51+. The fix
is not immediately obvious to me, but if no one else looks at this, I'll
try to fix it in the next couple of days.

D.