From ffd02d7f4ac143405bfe9b30cc34e6ee722872a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sebastien Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:17:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] trunk windows package: updated README.txt for Octave/Windows VC++ 3.0.3 git-svn-id: https://www.dynare.org/svn/dynare/dynare_v4@2271 ac1d8469-bf42-47a9-8791-bf33cf982152 --- windows/README.txt | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/windows/README.txt b/windows/README.txt index 3fe314de7..e1690f4a2 100644 --- a/windows/README.txt +++ b/windows/README.txt @@ -53,17 +53,21 @@ specify a MOD file. Using Dynare with Octave ------------------------ -Dynare is now available for Octave, a free clone of Matlab (R) (see +Dynare is now available for GNU Octave, a free clone of Matlab (R) (see ). -For installing Octave on your Windows system, go to: +The recommended Octave distribution is the Octave/Windows VC++ 3.0.3 +precompiled binaries from Octave Forge, available at: - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078 + http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078&release_id=642199 -Then pick the 'octave-3.0.1-vs2008-setup.exe' installer. Choose GNUplot -graphical backend (instead of JHandles) during installation. Also note that -this distribution contains a nice text editor, which you can invoke with "edit" -as you would under Matlab (R). +During installation, you will be asked which graphical backend to use. Neither +of them works perfectly with Dynare at this time: + + * GNUplot gives better-looking results when several graphics are plotted in the + same window, but window titles will not show up + * JHandles properly displays windows titles, but gives ugly results when several + plots are displayed in the same window WARNING: the Octave binary distribution has a bug which makes Octave crash everytime one types 'clear all' (and therefore everytime one runs Dynare!). A