From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 29 04:23:47 1998
Subject: Re[2]: MATLAB COMPATIBILITY  
From: "PETER HOPFGARTNER"<phopfgartner at memc dot inet dot it>
To: <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 98 11:08:15 +0100


     I think that before starting any discussion on MESA, the list should 
     decide
     
     1) on the toolkit to use (if Windows portability is of any concern, 
     wxWindows may be well suited, if not GTK (http://www.gimp.org) seems 
     to become the shooting star, as it is strongly enforced by debian and 
     Red Hat, Motif is even viable, as a free replacement exists 
     (http://www.lesstif.org), KDE put octave in it's todo list for 
     adapting to the KDE desktop environment (http://www.kde.org)).
     
     2) how to handle graphics: (continue to use gnuplot, using GNU 
     plotutils for 2D and Mesa for 3D, writing a new graphics handling)
     
     As far as I have the time (I have a full time job) I would like to 
     participate in the graphics handling, since Octave is one of the 
     packages I use most and I like most.
     
                                        Peter


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Subject: Re: MATLAB COMPATIBILITY  
Author:  <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu > at NOVARALINK
Date:    1/29/98 2:41 AM


On 20-Jan-1998, Mario Storti <mstorti at minerva dot unl dot edu dot ar> wrote:
     
| BTW, are there any projects around of writing an interface to the Mesa 
| graphics library? Right now, I wrote a small program to see surfaces
| and plot streamlines (fluid mechanics), but I simply write from octave 
| a data file, and after I read this from the small C program. I wonder 
| if someone has made somegthing better. Mesa is GPL. 
     
Mesa is definitely interesting, but I have no current plans to write 
an interface to it for Octave, nor do I know of anyone else working on 
such a project.  But if anyone is interested in working on a project 
like this, please contact me.
     
Thanks,
     
     
jwe