From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Nov 9 13:22:38 2003 Subject: Re: Handle graphics project will start in January 2004. From: N Smethurst To: Ole Jacob Hagen , octave-graphics@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:24:20 +0100 Hi Ole and everyone else. Although we have not spoken for some time now, I have still been working on my application, including the ideas I discussed with you a while back regarding an Octave graphics system. I actually now have a website. There is also some information there about the plugin concept for an Octave graphical system (more needs to be added though). The website address is kvisualiser.free.fr The more I have pondered over the original idea, the more I have come to realise that the basic implementation of low level object types in Octave would be relatively easy. I am beginning to conclude that the bulk of the work would be in the user end high level plotting scripts and perhaps any exotic communication methods that people may wish to implement (I am happy with sockets, but others may desire other things). My reasoning to this is that my ideas have not involved the low level graphical object types (figure, axes, surface, etc.) in Octave actually doing anything apart from feeding user commands to the language plugin. The language plugin would create the outgoing communication stream to the visualisation application. Thus the bulk of the work is done by the external application, and the graphical objects in Octave are merely interface stubs that have no functionality (and in fact no data other than an ID) in themselves. I would propose that interested parties begin an ongoing discussion on the octave-graphics mailing list. If that means just you (Ole) and me, then so be it. What would be wasteful were if we all continue to work without any common understanding and then end up with different incompatible systems. Nic PS How is OPlot++ coming along? Le Dimanche 9 Novembre 2003 02:55, Ole Jacob Hagen a écrit : > Any comments? > > > Cheers, > > Ole J.