From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 2 22:57:33 1996 Subject: Re: Matlab ginput From: niles at axp745 dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, niles@axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov Date: Mon, 02 Dec 96 23:57:50 -0500 > : Therefore I warmly welcome John's announced intention to develop octave > : graphics in a new direction, and will be happy to help as best I > : can. > > Anyone who is interested in discussing implementation details of new > graphics and GUI tools for Octave is welcome to join a mailing list > that I have set up for that purpose. Just send me mail to join. Yes! Please check out http://axp745.gsfc.nasa.gov/java/XYPlot/ (make sure you try all three mouse buttons...) It's something I whipped up in a few days of Java... But I really think Java is the way to go!! It's system independent so the GUI will theoretically work under all OS's. MS is already causing problems...but I don't think that's a show stopper. Java is cool too.. Better Object orientated that C++ (IMHO). It's somewhat slow but really not too bad.. and we could work out a Web server based Octave...for education and demos! I know some people had there heart set on Tk, but I really think this will be more portable and in the tradition of Octave's cutting edge...(I'd guess C++ was somewhat new when jwe started), and OO design. Of course, I know little of Tk so I'm prepared to be flamed.. but let's kill the Tcl idea already..it's a minor scripting language. Rick Niles.