Math Forum / Math Software / Scilab / April 2008

I'd like to add button to menu so I use addmenu but I'd like it to
stay after closing scilab.

Hello there, back to Scilab again I wonder if it would be possible to
create an interface for a HP50G Calculator. I didn't do any API
programming so far and thus don't have any clue whether it can be
done. But I bought this thing about a month ago and I d like to

I am trying this testing version on my x86.
Everything seems right but the graphics GUI.
As soon as I want to draw a plot,
only the frame of the window appears and the whole scilab crashes :

I just look through sci_doc_kit and trying to find solution to input
LaTeX formula. According to the manual, TeX/LaTeX formulas may input
form external files but not embedded in XML file.
Can we just embed TeX/LaTeX formula into the 'alt' attribute of

I try to use sci_doc_kit utility (from Scilab 5-alpah-3) to create
online help file in chinese (language zh_TW) . I must modify following
files as following
docbook_xsl\html\chunker.xsl:

Is there an equivalent of the matlab "importdata" function, which
allows to read from the nth line in a text file?
I tried "read", also tried "read" in combination with "file" (to open
the file) with no success. The file is said to be incorrect or of an

I'm new to scilab (4.1.2) and try to use it under Vista Home Basic.
Unfortunately, it has already major problems with very basic
operations: I start the editor, type something and try to save the
file. No error message, but the file was not saved, it is still called

I have a syntax problem with the scifunc block. I would like my block
to read from an ascii file and output the value read to the scope.
The function is working fine under the scilab shell (i.e., not under
scicos) but I can not understand the syntax that is required from the

The opar fields in scicos block can be used to pass for example
matrices to the implementation function. In the few examples normally
one opar parameters is used (as "list")
Now, I need to pass more then one opar parameter to the implementation

I want to install the last Scilab version on a 64 bits computer which
has a debian distribution of linux.
I don't know linux. It's only to use Scilab.
I try to install it by downloading the binary file and do a "make".

greeting all,
right now i am facing a problem on how to link the context in scicos
with scipad. its because i am using the batch processing (refer to the
chapter 11 in Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos book) and i

Is there a simple neat *standard* way to get a flag for one string
occurring within a longer string? Everything I've tried gives an empty
set if not found rather than a flag or error value.

I would like to know if you have an idea of possible date for beta and
release version of Scilab 5 ?
Thanks.

I have been trying to figure this one out for a few days and just
cannot get it. I have looked up previous posts on the subject, and the
only thing really constructive that I found seems to indicate to take
the real part of the output, which I have done, to no avail..

Are there any possibilities to make a connection between an .exe file
and scilab?
I have an exe file which is generating data for scilab. How can i
start scilab with this data? how can i make the link between this exe