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uifigure.m: Add new function. * NEWS.8.md: Announce new function. * scripts/gui/uifigure.m: New function. * scripts/gui/module.mk: Add uifigure.m to build system. * gui.txi: Add docstring to manual.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 8 (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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4 ### General improvements
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6 - Octave's libraries are now built using symbol visibility by default.
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7 That means that less symbols are exported from these libraries.
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8 Configure with `--disable-lib-visibility-flags` to export all symbols
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9 (as in previous versions).
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11 - `integral` can now output a second argument passing the error
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12 parameter from the underlying integrator.
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14 ### Graphical User Interface
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17 ### Graphics backend
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20 ### Matlab compatibility
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22 - `inline` functions now support all Matlab methods. The performance
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23 of `inline` functions has also been improved.
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25 - `sub2ind` now supports index values outside of the size specified by
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26 the subscripts.
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28 - `cylinder` now accepts a scalar for the radius argument.
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30 - `clock` now has an optional second output `ISDST` which indicates if
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31 Daylight Savings Time is in effect for the system's time zone.
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33 - `print` now accepts option `-image` to specify the "opengl" renderer
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37 calling `format` without any options to reset the default state.
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42 - `var` and `std` now optionally output a second argument containing the mean
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43 or weighted mean.
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45 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8
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47 * `uifigure`
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49 ### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
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51 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 8
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52 and will be removed from Octave 10 (or whatever version is the second
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53 major release after 8):
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55 - Functions
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57 Function | Replacement
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59 `shift` | `circshift`
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60 `sparse_auto_mutate` | none (see below)
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62 - The `sparse_auto_mutate` function no longer has any effect on Octave's
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63 behavior. Previously, after calling `sparse_auto_mutate (true)`,
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64 Octave would automatically convert sparse matrices to full when a
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65 sparse matrix required more memory than simply using full matrix
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66 storage. This setting was `false` by default for compatibility with
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67 Matlab. Now you must manually convert to full storage when desired.
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70 - Properties
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72 The following property names are discouraged, but there is no fixed
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73 date for their removal.
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75 Object | Property | Replacement
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76 -----------------|-------------|------------
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77 `uimenu` | `label` | `text`
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78 `uimenu` | `callback` | `menuselectedfcn`
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80 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 6 and have been removed
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81 from Octave 8.
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83 - Functions
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85 Function | Replacement
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87 `runtests` | `oruntests`
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89 - The environment variable used by `mkoctfile` for linker flags is now
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90 `LDFLAGS` rather than `LFLAGS`. `LFLAGS` was deprecated in Octave 6,
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91 and will be removed in a future version of Octave.
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93 ### Old release news
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95 - [Octave 7.x](etc/NEWS.7)
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96 - [Octave 6.x](etc/NEWS.6)
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97 - [Octave 5.x](etc/NEWS.5)
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99 - [Octave 3.x](etc/NEWS.3)
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100 - [Octave 2.x](etc/NEWS.2)
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101 - [Octave 1.x](etc/NEWS.1)