From graphics-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 17 05:03:56 2006
Subject: Re: Octave GUI 0.5
From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
To: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>,         octave-graphics <graphics@octave.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:02:01 +0700

On 2/17/06, Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com> wrote:
> There's that possibility, other possibilities:
> * Use an MDI window
> * Separate but tabbed editor window
> However it's not clear which one is most desirable at this point.
>

The tabbed editor will be like Matlab's (with the tabs near the bottom
of the window), and I think this is better than an MDI window (just my
suggestion).

> Other requests I have so far:
> * Variables tab
> * Use Octave's history buffer
>

Well, good luck :)

> Things I personally want to do:
> * Make MinGW go (*)
> * Fix Help, perhaps using QTextBrowser (althought QAssistant would be
> superior.)
> * Add line numbers to the editor
> * Fix the directory tab (perhaps by implementing my own QDirModel) so it has
> ".." in it.
>
> Patches accepted!
>

Unfortunately I don't know C++, but I'll try to help (although
graphics is not my primary interest ATM).

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William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno