From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed May  2 06:03:27 2001
Subject: GUI requirements
From: "Volker Augustin" <Volker dot Augustin at stud dot uni-regensburg dot de>
To: <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:03:09 +0200

Hello guys,

I just finished building a GUI for CoCoA (Computational Commutative Algebra) for
the university of Genoa, Italy. The GUI was written in Qt but future version will probably
be written in Java.

So currently I am thinking about creating an open source GUI for math engines in Java.
The GUI should be able to load math engines as plugins or connect to math engines
via a network. Moreover, it should be able to connect to different math engines at the
same time.

This is going to be a major project and I am currently trying to determine what features
will be need to make the project a success.

Since I read about your plans on creating a GUI I thought you guys might be interrested.
I have no experience with octave. Could you please give me a short summary of the
features a GUI would have to provide to be useful for octave?

Thanks in advance.

Volker Augustin

P.S.If anyone of you is interested in joining this project, please let me know :-)
P.P.S. If you want to take a look at the CoCoA GUI it is available freely http://cocoa.dima.unige.it 
I just checked and the new version 4.1 is not yet available. It should become available later today or
at least by the end of this week.