From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Feb 10 01:26:04 1998
Subject: Design of octave graphics  
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Matti Picus <matti at techunix dot technion dot ac dot il>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:22:51 -0600

On 10-Feb-1998, Matti Picus <matti at techunix dot technion dot ac dot il> wrote:

| Hi. Note that I would like to move this to octave-maintainers, hope
| all agree.

Yes, this mailing list is the right place for discussions like this.

| I also like plotutils. Since our objective is adding general graphics to
| octave, I think we should try to design a more general graphics class, from
| which figures, plots (axis, line,...), buttons, text, and other things
| inherit. Following the lead of VIM (a VI replacement that also has a GUI
| version) we could declare the member functions in a toolkit-independent
| file, then include function definitions in toolkit-dependent libraries of
| thunks. 

I took a quick look at plotutils and it doesn't seem to say that it
will work on win32 systems.  Does anyone know how hard it might be to
make it work with the gnu-win32 tools?

| I can't find my Matlab license, but their heirarchy of objects might be a
| good place to start. 

Yes, we should definitely make it possible to support the types of
buttons and knobs that Matlab has.

Thanks,

jwe