Re: Graphical octave frontend

[Paul Kienzle]

Ulrich Kuettler wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:01, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> > Ulrich Kuettler wrote:
> > > I hope you share my enthusiasm about it because to go further I need
> > > your kind help and support. My aim is to link against out of the box
> > > octave libraries. But there might be a few changes necessary. For
> > >     
> > An alternative approach is to run octave in a
> > separate process and use pipes (e.g., octave-forge
> > extra/engine) or TCP/IP sockets (e.g., octave-forge
> > main/miscellaneous/listen.cc).  Neither interface is
> > complete, but both have been used successfully in
> > some projects.
> >   
>
> This surely is an idea. But on the other hand would it force me to implement 
> my own parse tree and value classes. That is why linking against octave libs 
> seems more reasonable to me.
No, you can send commands to evaluate through
the link, whatever it is, and just pick up the results.
> > > example could the build process be much smoother if octave's config.h
> > > had another name. (I'm also very much in favour of John Eaton's
> > > suggestion to introduce an "octave" namespace.) Another issue I
> > > haven't solved yet is how a library's user finds the error messages
> > > when error_state != 0.
> > >     
> > Look in listen.cc:
> >
> >     bind_global_error_variable();
> >     octave_value def = get_builtin_value("__error_text__");
> >     std::string str = def.string_value();
> >
> >   
>
> Thank you very much. This solves it! Now it's merely a question of the user 
> interface to present the message in a sensible way. (But why don't I find the 
> file listen.cc?)
http://octave.sf.net
> To me it's really amazing how well octave fits, how easy it is to use it. The 
> only difficulty I see now is the file config.h as there is a file of the same 
> name inside koffice. And would it be possible to add "--cflags" and "--libs" 
> options to octave-config? This would make the build process a lot easier.
Do you mean:

    CFLAGS=... LIBS=... ./configure

Or do you mean:

    mkoctfile -p CFLAGS
    mkoctfile -p LIBS

Paul Kienzle
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