Re: Yet another GUI releated thought

[Ryan Rusaw]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:29 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  9-May-2008, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
>  | Now, a somehow ugly compromise might be to introduce synchronization
>  | points, either implicit in the octave eval loop or explicit in user
>  | code (process_gui_callbacks())
>
>  I think that's what John Swensen's IDE does now.
>
>  jwe
>

Would it not be possible to allow the various IDE's to register code
to be called on each iteration of the octave eval loop at startup?
Then leave it to each IDE development team to determine what
functionality they need themselves ie. updating a variable watch
window in the IDE via a data socket or other IPC mechanism.

Ryan