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+## 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} {} FPL2trspdesurf (@var{mesh}, @
+## @var{color}, @var{data})
+##
+## Plots the transient scalar field @var{u} defined on the triangulation
+## @var{mesh} using opendx. Connections are rendered as defined by
+## @var{color}
+##
+## Example:
+## @example
+##
+## FPL2trspdesurf(mesh,"blue",data)
+##
+## @end example
+## @seealso{FPL2pdesurf, FPL2ptcsurf, FPL2trsptcsurf}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function FPL2trspdesurf(varargin)
+
+ seriesend = columns(varargin{3});
+ dataname = mktemp("/tmp",".dx");
+ colorname = varargin{2};
+ FPL2dxoutputtimeseries(dataname, varargin{1}.p, varargin{1}.t, \
+ varargin{3}, "dataseries", 0, 1, 1:seriesend);
+
+ scriptname = mktemp("/tmp",".net");
+
+ view = file_in_path(path,"FPL2trspdesurf.net");
+
+ system (["cp " view " " scriptname]);
+ system (["sed -i \'s|FILENAME|" dataname "|g\' " scriptname]);
+ system (["sed -i \'s|COLORNAME|" colorname "|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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