From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 12 10:20:44 1999
Subject: Re: Comments on GUI and plotting library
From: Jonathan King <kingjw at missouri dot edu>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:20:25 -0600 (CST)


[if anybody receives a half-baked reply on a related thread from me, I
 appologize for butter-fingered editing; ignore it.]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 11-Mar-1999, Matthew J Valenta <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com> wrote:
> 
> | Jonathan King wrote:

[stuff about using the pTk library, or even perl/Tk itself to do an
 Octave GUI.]

> | > Do you think it's worth a try?
> | 
> | Yes. What do other people thing?
> | 

[perldl stuff deleted]

> Sorry, but before you get too involved with these ideas, I have to say
> that I'm not really interested in gluing perl and Octave together, or
> adding things to Octave that require perl in order for them to work.

Point taken.  But I think what I was trying to suggest is that a prototype
like this could be useful, since it might indicate what you'd really want
to add to Octave.  Also, I got interested in it because I was pretty sure
that you wouldn't have to add anything to Octave itself to get *something*
working.  On the other hand, it looks like something is going to get added
to Octave 2.1x in any case, which kind of moots that point.

But I do have a hunch that the Tk toolkit will end up being rather close
to what Octave will eventually need, whether that means possibly linking
against the pTk library or developing a layer between whatever other
toolkit gets used and Octave.

jking