From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Oct 30 01:30:40 2002
Subject: How about this idea: Make a Octave IDE using eclipse platform
From: "Yan Weng" <yweng at cs dot uoregon dot edu>
To: <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:29:17 -0800

Recently, Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) , the open souce universal tool
platform, released its 2.0 version. How about making a plug-in for
development with Octave? So we needn't reinvent the weel - developing the
general IDE environment. Furthermoer, we can use Java to build some portable
GUI stuff. Eclipse project uses SWT, instead of Swing, to build its GUI. The
result is a faster and native-look GUI. As a guy working on both Windows and
Linux, I am attracted deeply by this idea. Do you guys think this is a good
idea to go for?

I'd like to integrate it to Eclipse Environment. So far, the development is
in pre-alpha phase. screen shot see
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~yweng/Projects/technicalcomp/index.htm (at the
bottom of the page)

BTW, my frist step is trying to capture the standard input and output of
octave when I start an Octave instance. I meet with a problem: Although I
forced the octave to enter the interactive mode using "-i", I don't get the
"standard matrix output", such as:

octave:1> b = rand(2, 3)
b =

  0.088311  0.047736  0.646622
  0.828942  0.493807  0.952167

Instead, I only get one line, such as "b = 0.088311".

Other output is fine. I am not sure why the matrix display is not right. I
haven't read the source of Octave yet. I guess maybe the reason is that my
program is not a really termianl.  Any suggestions?

Best regards,

- Yan