From graphics-request at octave dot org Wed Mar  1 09:07:07 2006
Subject: Re: GUI thoughts
From: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: "Sebastien Loisel" <sloisel at gmail dot com>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,         "octave graphics and gui mailing list" <graphics@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:05:15 -0800

On 3/1/06, Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > But if Octave is off doing some long calculation (say in a Fortran
> > function) then nothing is printed and eval_string doesn't return until
> > the calculation is complete, so the GUI won't respond.  Perhaps that's
> > the way Matlab works too, but it doesn't seem acceptable to me.
>
> I think that's what Matlab does too.

That's how Matlab behaves on Windows. But not on Linux.