Math Forum / Math Software / Scilab / October 2008

Some of you might remember this issue, which I hardly believe happens
again, this time with the freshly installed scilab-5.0.2.
I just decide today to switch to this new version (binary downloaded
yesterday), open the editor for the first time, open a .sci file and

When I start Scilab I get a warning
"Microsoft Visual Studio C 2008 x64 Compiler not installed."
Nothing wrong with that. In fact, since I use the Express Version of
MSVS9, there is no amd64 compiler shipped with.

when I try to compile from  Scicos I get the following error:
.....
Modelica blocks are reduced to a block with:
Number of continuous time states: 19

SIVP 0.5.0.
Function rectangle has three arguments, the last one is undocumented
in the help file.
I think I figured out what this should be for gray and also for color

I can't find it. Can't find the file, though there's a documentation
about it in the help (under the keyword "startup").
In scilab-4.1.1 it is simply located in <path2sci>/
In SCIHOME/.Scilab/scilab-5.0.2 there's no scilab.ini neither.

 I am working on an article that compares ARMAX and Subspace
identification methods. We are using Scilab for our work. I didn't
find any notice about method used for ARMAX identification in Scilab
except this: "for the method see Eykhoff in trends and progress in

This one might as well do not appear, it would be the 4rd one over the
past 2 days.
Why is it so??

I would like to use arnoldi toolboxfor calculation eigenvector of
sparse matrix.
To use arnoldi, installation of umfpack is necessary.
But I can't figure out how to install in winXP unfortunately.

I've been trying to solve this problem for a good part of the day, and
I seem to be getting nowhere. I'd be most grateful for any assistance.
I have some 3d plots from plot3d() that I want to add a legend to. the
legend() function has a parameter to determine the legend's position,

I have a data file which is essentially X,Y,Z,Var1 - where XYZ is
position and Var1 is a scalar value. Is there an easy way for Scilab
(5.0.2) to load such data for analysis eg applying a scaling function
to the array. The aim is to make slices through the volume to be saved

Hi, Scilab Experts,
I just downloaded and installed Scilab 5. The installation was
successful, unfortunately, it failed to run. It seem that there was
problem with running JVM. I use JVM version 6, and updated to JVM 7,

currently I am implementing an ODBC interface for SciLab. The
following operations are supported: sqlConnect(), sqlDisconnnect(),
sqlQuery(), sqlSave(), sqlLoad(), sqlClear(). The first three ops
(they have their intuitive semantics) are implemented and are in a

The Fortran subroutine was built without error with Fortran, but when I ran
link('ext9.dll','ext9') in scilab
it returns
"shared archive loaded

I've installed ScilabGTK 4.2 on Ubuntu 8.04, and when trying to
connect scicos blocks I can't make the line stick to the next block no
matter what I do. I cannot even get rid of the line unless I press the
ESC button. I've installed the same version on Windows XP and I don't

My project at work involves getting Scilab to send data to a Lua
script. This is presenting problems for me as I can't figure out an
efficient and comprehensive way to do this.
The best I have been able to find is an interface between Scilab and