MacOSXIntegration

Integrating Octave with OS X

This page is devoted to OS X specific tweaks to octave, such as native (non-X11) display of plots and images through modifications of script files. Features in octave require a little more porting effort to integrate seemlessly with OS X are discussed on the page MacOSXPorting.

Native plot display

To have native graphics windows (i.e. Aqua instead of X11) you need gnuplot compiled with support for AquaTerm, [1]. Gnuplot 4.x automatically builds an aqua terminal if AquaTerm 1.0 or later is installed.

Native image display

By grabbing a modified image.m[2] file from octave-forge, images will be displayed by your OS X viewer of choice (default is Preview.app). This version of image.m relies on bmpwrite.m, also from OctaveForge, whereas previous versions depended on the utility 'convert' from ImageMagick.

A precompiled version of ImageMagick is available here [3].

To install ImageMagick follow these steps:

• Unpack it: gnutar xvzf ImageMagick-powerpc-apple-darwin6.4.tar.gz
• Change to IM directory: cd ImageMagick-5.5.6
• Copy it into /usr/local: sudo cp -R * /usr/local/.

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