From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 12 00:14:42 1999
Subject: Re: Comments on GUI and plotting library
From: Matthew J Valenta <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:15:02 +0000

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Jonathan King wrote:

> [Hmm, could be make sure not to send stuff me and also to octave-graphics?
>  I'm on that list now, and the duplicated email confuses me. :-)]

Sorry, I automatically hit Reply-All in order to get it sent to octave-graphics.
I will
be more careful.

> Actually, if you want to use perltk to do guis, probably the easiest way
> to go would be to create a perl program, let's call it "interOctave".

> The charms are many:  First, we aren't really asking Octave to do anything
> it can't already do right now, and people who don't need or like GUIs
> won't pay any cost to those of us who do.  Second, we don't weld Octave to
> a toolkit we might come to regret, or have to worry how to make a
> matlab-like language handle graphics commands.  You're also leveraging

There is an even bigger advantage to using this approach.  By keeping the GUI
code
separate, we make it easier for someone else to take our GUI code and connect it
to
their program.

> Do you think it's worth a try?

Yes. What do other people thing?

I've been digging deeper into this idea and there are a number of possibly useful

Perl modules that might save us work.  Most interesting though is PDL, which
appears to include some 2-D and 3-D plotting abilities.  Check out
http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/

More soon.
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Matthew Valenta
mvalenta at lycosmail dot com
(206)524-6444


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