--- /dev/null
+## Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Carlo de Falco, Massimiliano Culpo
+##
+## This file is part of
+##
+## FPL - Fem PLotting package for octave
+##
+## FPL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## FPL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with FPL; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+##
+##
+## AUTHORS:
+## Carlo de Falco <cdf _AT_ users.sourceforge.net>
+##
+## Culpo Massimiliano
+## Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal
+## Fachbereich C - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
+## Arbeitsgruppe fuer Angewandte MathematD-42119 Wuppertal Gaussstr. 20
+## D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+##
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} FPL2ptcsurf (@var{mesh1}, @
+## @var{color1}, @var{data1} @ [@var{mesh2}, @var{color2},@var{data2}])
+##
+## Plots the scalar fields @var{data} over the triangulation
+## @var{mesh} using opendx. Connections will be displayed as defined
+## in @var{color}.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function FPL2ptcsurf(varargin)
+
+ colorlist = "";
+ datalist = "";
+
+ for ii=1:3:nargin
+ dataname{ii} = mktemp("/tmp",".dx");
+ FPL2dxoutputdata(dataname{ii},varargin{ii}.p,varargin{ii}.t,varargin{ii+2},"var",0,1,1);
+ datalist = strcat (datalist, """", dataname{ii} ,"""");
+ colorlist= strcat (colorlist, """", varargin{ii+1} ,"""");
+ endfor
+
+ scriptname = mktemp("/tmp",".net");
+
+ ptcview = file_in_path(path,"FPL2ptcsurf.net");
+
+ system (["cp " ptcview " " scriptname]);
+ system (["sed -i \'s|""FILELIST""|" datalist "|g\' " scriptname]);
+ system (["sed -i \'s|""COLORLIST""|" colorlist "|g\' " scriptname]);
+
+ command = ["dx -noConfirmedQuit -program " scriptname " -execute -image >& /dev/null & "];
+ system(command);
+
+endfunction
+
+function filename = mktemp (direct,ext);
+
+ if (~exist(direct,"dir"))
+ error("Trying to save temporary file to non existing directory")
+ endif
+
+ done = false;
+
+ while ~done
+ filename = [direct,"/FPL.",num2str(floor(rand*1e7)),ext];
+ if ~exist(filename,"file")
+ done = true;
+ endif
+ endwhile
+
+endfunction
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