Re: octave for windows (Bateman)

[David Bateman]

Wolfgang Lindner wrote:

> Dear group,
> 
> David Bateman has compiled a genuine windows version of octave which seems to 
> be a great
> progress for all windows users, see www.dbatman.org, thank you David.

Thank Michael Goffioul for that, though I did the original work on the
mingw build a couple of years back.

If you use this version it must be considered as highly experimental as
it is against an arbitrary CVS of octave, with a number of patches from
Michael, which is why its on my homepage and not sourceforge. Therefore,
its probably not a good idea to advertise this version too widely.

> 
> Testing this version using OS WindowsXPhome I have 2 questions:
> 
> 1. the greeting screen appears in 'typewriter speed', so that I can watch it 
> as if I
> would
> have written it by hand. So with my own inputs: there is a long delay before 
> my input
> appears on the GUI input line.
> Is it possible that my resouces are too small?
> Has anyone watched similar effects?

It might be the use of console2 rather than cmd.exe that is slowing
things up.

> 
> 2. The GUI screen is black, the letters are written in white color.
> Is it possible to invert the screen to write black letters on white screen?  

I haven't had this issue, perhaps Michael has some idea...

D.

> 
> HTH   Wolfgang Lindner