Plot window not responding

Question

I\'m using Windows 7 64 bit. Each time, I\'m using plot function, plot windows will shows and draws successfully, but after that it stops responding and must shut down it.

Answer 1

So on windows, this worked for me:

Step 1: Install gnuplot to C:\Program Files (x86)\gnuplot:

Download link:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/

Step 2: Goto below given directory(considering you have installed Octave in C:\ root):

C:\Octave\share\octave\site\m\startup

open octaverc file present in that directory in Notepad.

Step 3:

Add following lines to the end of the file.

gnuplot_binary 'C:\Program Files (x86)\gnuplot\bin\gnuplot.exe'
graphics_toolkit('gnuplot')

Step 4:

Save the file and exit the Notepad. If Octave is open please close it too.

Step 5:

Open Octave and type following command in it to check:

plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6]);

Please note for the first time it might take gnuplot upto 5 minutes to render the graph. So, please do not try to close the app. Subsequent simple plots renders pretty quickly, usually under 1 second.