From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Oct 30 02:26:10 2002
Subject: Re: How about this idea: Make a Octave IDE using eclipse platform
From: Laurent Jacques <ljacques at fyma dot ucl dot ac dot be>
To: <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:26:06 +0100

Hello,

I'm not an Octave developer so I don't speak for the octave community. 
I have however a question: "Is your future work compatible with the GPL or 
are you simply open source fashion ?"

I think that java can also pose some GPL compatibility problems even if it is 
very portable. Comments ?

This kind of questions are very important before any real work.

Bye,
Laurent.

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 07:29, Yan Weng wrote:
| 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