From graphics-request at octave dot org Fri Dec 17 03:44:41 2004
Subject: Re: Octave GUI API: Proposal.
From: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
To: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:42:11 +0100

Hi.

Nice that this is a scope of interest. ;-)

I hope you are planning a toolkit-independent GUI layer?

How will you achieve this? Example that user can decide whether he will 
use gtk, Qt or wxWindows to mention some.

I'm aware that Qt is a commercial software on Windows, but there is an 
alternative. This alternative is Qt-package developed by  kde-cygwin 
project at sourceforge. They are porting the Qt/X11 to Windows. I've 
contributed some code to the OpenGL module. I've compiled and build this 
qt-3 package natively on Windows with MSVC, so my Qt-applications runs 
without cygwin/X11. They are not linked to cygwin.dll either. ;-)
I believe kde-cygwin project will release a binary that doesn't require 
any compilations, so users don't need to use MSVC. You can always 
compile with mingw, if this is prefered.

We are also planning to make a octave-internal graphics object handler, 
but have made a Props package to Oplot, which is an external library 
that comes with Oplot. This package is using callbacks, when a property 
has changed.


If we have the same goals we could help eachother out, I guess.



Cheers,

Ole