From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Nov  8 20:01:41 2003
Subject: Handle graphics project will start in January 2004.
From: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:55:35 +0100

Hi. 

I can proudly announce that a project, which will make Octave able to use Matlab's handle graphics will start in January 2004.
This is a bachelor-thesis/major, where one of the tasks is to implement handle graphics in Octave. 

This handle graphics package in Octave,
 will support the most basic handle graphics for starters, but will be maintained and developed further.
Graphics objects which will be supported first are; 

1. axes
2. figure
3. root
(4. surface)

This handle graphics package, will be a generalized handle graphics, so it will fit any visualization libraries, with minor modification. 
It will be found a good protocol for both pipe-communication and socket-communication, but it will link to Oplot++ for starters. 

Wether a link should be pipe, unix domain socket or tcp/ip, and visualization application to use should be decided by user, by writing the configuration in a file, which should be started during startup of Octave. 

Later a GUI for Octave should be made, and the handle graphics should be a part of that gui, shouldn't it?

I've learned that a guy called Nimrod made a nice base for handle graphics, but unfortunatly it's developed using gtk.
 
Any comments? 


Cheers, 

Ole J.