Re: Eliminating Singleton Objects (Re: Coloring error and warning messages in the gui console)

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/09/2017 04:13 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> For
> example, intermixing of GUI and core/interpreter is unnecessary, as I
> feel there is a wealth of built-in commands that offer up all the
> information the GUI needs, if only there were a simple routine to return
> the result of an interpreter command (which can be done across a thread
> by passing a pointer to an octave_value_list rather than a reference to
> an octave_value_list).

I don't see how a reference is different from a pointer for that 
purpose.  Can you explain?

In any case, yes, I agree that it would be better to have a better 
mechanism for GUI <-> interpreter communication.  I know you had a 
proposal for this some time ago.  I would be glad to take another look 
at that now.

jwe