Re: Does Octave contain the wavelet transform toolbox?

[DigitalPig]

"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 24-Mar-2008, DigitalPig wrote:
>
> | Thanks for providing this. After I unzip this file, it said it can't
> | find octave path.
> | 
> | I think it's because Octave doesn't have matlabroot function...
>
> You could define your own.  It would be
>
>   function val = matlabroot ()
>     val = OCTAVE_HOME;
>   endfunction
>
> That's precisely what will appear in Octave 3.1.
Sounds good! Thanks! :)
>  
> | I modified it a little, and show the diff here:
>
> | *** WavePath.m      2008-03-24 22:57:26.000000000 -0400
> | --- WavePath-2.m    2008-03-24 23:46:18.000000000 -0400
> | ***************
> | *** 19,29 ****
> | WAVELABPATH = ['Macintosh HD:Build 850:Wavelab$VERSION$', 
> PATHNAMESEPARATOR];
> |       MATLABPATHSEPARATOR = ';';
> |         WAVELABPATH=strcat(matlabroot,'/toolbox/Wavelab850/')
> | !   elseif isunix,
> |       PATHNAMESEPARATOR = '/';
> |       WAVELABPATH = [pwd, PATHNAMESEPARATOR];
> |       MATLABPATHSEPARATOR = ':';
> |         WAVELABPATH=strcat(matlabroot,'/toolbox/Wavelab850/')
> |     elseif strcmp(Friend(1:2),'PC');
> |       PATHNAMESEPARATOR = '\';        
> |       WAVELABPATH = [cd PATHNAMESEPARATOR];  
> | --- 19,35 ----
> | WAVELABPATH = ['Macintosh HD:Build 850:Wavelab$VERSION$', 
> PATHNAMESEPARATOR];
> |       MATLABPATHSEPARATOR = ';';
> |         WAVELABPATH=strcat(matlabroot,'/toolbox/Wavelab850/')
> | !   elseif exist('OCTAVE_VERSION'),
> | !         PATHNAMESEPARATOR = '/';
> | !     WAVELABPATH = [pwd, PATHNAMESEPARATOR];
> | !     MATLABPATHSEPARATOR = ':';
> | !     WAVELABPATH=strcat('/usr/share/octave/2.9.12/m','/Wavelab850/')
> | !   elseif isunix
>
> I haven't looked at the original file for all the context, but this
> seems wrong since Octave also runs on Windows systems.
>
> Also, you probably want to install in a subdirectory of the site
> directory rather than in the 2.9.12 directory, and it would probably
> be best not to hardcode a version number...  You can get the site
> directory with
>
>   octave_config_info ("localfcnfiledir")
>
> If this should be version- or api-specific, you should use
> "localapifcnfiledir" or "localverfcnfiledir".
>
> jwe

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