From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Jul 29 19:35:02 2000
Subject: handel graphics
From: "Julian A. de Marchi, Ph.D." <julian at matlinks dot net>
To: <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "Paul Kienzle" <pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:34:54 -0400

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This list seems to be somewhat latent.  I read through all the GUI work
people
promised to look into...Who's out there working on this aspect of Octave
now?

I'm personally very interested in committing my long-term efforts to a
Simulink-like simulation/GUI front end for Octave.  Though this can't happen
without the nit and grit of a great balance of Octave functionality itself,
I think there's a lot of "latent interest" in this if/when it ever comes
about.

jwe is right to force the issue in terms of toolkit independence.  But this
also seems to have killed subsequent development.  Naturally, distracted by
the underlying needs of Octave proper, a GUI will never appear.  Can we get
to the point of completing the basic set of c++ APIs so we can start
developing the GUI functions themselves?  (I'm not the one, don't get me
wrong.)  I want to help with the latter part, being an utter oaf wrt
low-level Octave functionality.  I'm ready to grapple with the toolkit
interfaces.

Meanwhile, I have the inane suggestion to term Octave's graphics API (the
script-level one) "Handel Graphics", further confusing the origin of the
term "Octave", paying respects to a great composer at the same time, and
further (falsely) insinuating that "Octave" has anything to do with music
whatsoever.  More than anything it's a trump for Matlab, since Handel has
obviously offered the world loads more than Handle Graphics (TM) ever could.

So, is anyone non-GNUPLOT related still out there?

=j

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