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Re: X Interface
From: |
Carl Leitner |
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Re: X Interface |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:34:49 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 7-Oct-1996, Carl Leitner <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> : Does anyone know of any plans of allowing the x-interface functions in
> : matlab to work under octave. Possibly a tcl/tk or expectk wrapper?
>
> I have some vague ideas about adding programmable GUI features to
> Octave after 2.0. I would prefer to make it possible for users to
> easily write their own interfaces to new toolkits so that Octave is
> not tied to any one toolkit in particular. If anyone is interested in
> working on this, please send me some mail.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>
This is primarily the reason I asked. I would be interested in working on
this. I have some background with expect/tcl-tk, as well as the
X-interface w/ Matlab. But before I begin doing so, I would like to
bounce some ideas around. Here is what I am looking at:
1) Trying to make it as close to Matlab's interface as possible
2) Either:
Creating a new loading function to filter the X
commands to expectk and the non-x to octave.
(This could prevent people from typing in X
commands or create incompatibilities w/ other
versions of an X-interface)
Or:
Running any x-capable *.a files under expectk
and piping the appropriate stuff to octave
(This would require two binaries
octave
and octave_tcl)
What do you see as advantages/disadvantages to any of these aproaches.
Are there are aproaches that might be equally fit, or better?
Carl Leitner