why don't animations work in LiveScripts?

why don't animations work in figures embedded in LiveScripts when they work fine in identical Scripts where the figures open in their own window?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Live scripts are still new and this functionality hasn't been added yet.

You can force a figure to pop out of a live script by putting:

figure('visible','on')

so that the animation happens.

[Chris Dewdney]

Thanks, the animation now displays in a figure window from the livescript but it is very much slower than the script version.

[Sean de Wolski]

I've experienced this as well. Using:

drawnow limitrate

to force the graphics updates helps make the animations much faster.