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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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4 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics has been improved.
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6 The hggroup object and associated listener callback functions have
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7 been added allowing the inclusion of group objects. Data sources
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8 have been added to these group objects such that
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10 x = 0:0.1:10;
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11 y = sin (x);
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12 plot (x, y, "ydatasource", "y");
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13 for i = 1 : 100
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14 pause(0.1)
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15 y = sin (x + 0.1 * i);
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16 refreshdata();
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17 endfor
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19 works as expected. This capability has be used to introduce
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20 stem-series, bar-series, etc., objects for better Matlab
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21 compatibility.
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23 ** New graphics functions:
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25 addlistener diffuse ezsurfc plotmatrix
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26 addproperty ezcontour findall refresh
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27 allchild ezcontourf gcbf refreshdata
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28 available_backends ezmesh gcbo specular
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29 backend ezmeshc ginput surfl
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30 cla ezplot gtext waitforbuttonpress
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31 clabel ezplot3 intwarning
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32 comet ezpolar ishghandle
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33 dellistener ezsurf linkprop
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35 ** New experimental OpenGL/FLTK based plotting system.
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37 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK
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38 toolkit is now part of Octave. This backend is disabled by
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39 default. You can switch to using it with the command
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41 backend ("fltk")
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43 for all future figures or for a particular figure with the command
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45 backend (h, "fltk")
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47 where "h" is a valid figure handle. Please note that this backend
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48 does not yet support text objects. Obviously, this is a necessary
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49 feature before it can be considered usable. We are looking for
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50 volunteers to help implement this missing feature.
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52 ** Functions providing direct access to gnuplot have been removed.
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54 The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__,
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55 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__,
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56 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been
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57 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the
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58 high level graphics handle code.
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60 ** The Control, Finance and Quaternion functions have been removed.
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62 These functions are now available as separate packages from
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64 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
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66 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see
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67 the pkg function).
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69 ** Specific sparse matrix functions removed.
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71 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have
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72 been removed. Instead of calling these functions directly, you
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73 should use the corresponding function without the "sp" prefix.
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77 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum
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78 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk
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81 ** Improvements to the debugger.
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83 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping
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84 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping
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85 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time
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86 (with dbstep) now works. Moving up and down the call stack with
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87 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available
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88 to print the current function call stack. The new dbquit function
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89 is available to exit the debugging mode.
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91 ** Improved traceback error messages.
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93 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to
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94 understand. They now display information about the function call
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96 the point of the error.
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98 ** Object Oriented Programming.
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100 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own
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101 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For
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102 example, all methods of a class called "myclass" will be found in
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103 a directory "@myclass" on the users path. The class specific
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104 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the
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105 generic versions of these functions.
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107 New functions related to OOP include
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109 class inferiorto isobject loadobj methods superiorto
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111 See the Octave manual for more details.
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113 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions.
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115 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first
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116 declare them with "mark_as_command". The rules for recognizing a
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117 command-style function calls are
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119 * A command must appear as the first word in a statement,
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122 * The first character after the space must not be '=' or '('
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124 * The next token after the space must not look like a binary
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125 operator.
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127 These rules should be mostly compatible with the way Matlab parses
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128 command-style function calls and allow users to define commands in
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129 .m files without having to mark them as commands.
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137 you must use the normal function call syntax:
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139 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat");
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141 ** Block comments.
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143 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and
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144 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This
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145 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment
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148 function [s, t] = func (x, y)
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149 s = 2 * x;
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150 #{
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151 s *= y;
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152 t = y + x;
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153 #}
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154 endfunction
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158 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b".
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315 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
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316 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
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317 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
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318 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
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319 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
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320 clearplot is_square t_pdf
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321 clg is_stream t_rnd
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322 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
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323 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
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324 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
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325 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
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326 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
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327 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
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328 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
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329 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
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330 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
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331 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
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332 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
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333 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
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334 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
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335 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
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336 geometric_inv pascal_inv
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337
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338 The following functions are now deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
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339 be removed in Octave 3.6 (or whatever version is the second major
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340 release after 3.2):
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341
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342 create_set spcholinv spmax
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343 dmult spcumprod spmin
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344 iscommand spcumsum spprod
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345 israwcommand spdet spqr
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346 lchol spdiag spsum
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347 loadimage spfind spsumsq
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348 mark_as_command spinv str2mat
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349 mark_as_rawcommand spkron unmark_command
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350 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand
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351 spchol split
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352 spchol2inv splu
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353
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354 See NEWS.3 for old news.