From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Nov 16 09:48:41 2003
Subject: Re: Documentation for dynamically loadable types?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net
Cc: N Smethurst <nick dot smethurst at free dot fr>,    octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:48:39 -0600

On 16-Nov-2003, pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net <pkienzle@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

| As for help defining new types, the octave examples directory
| includes an example of defining a new integer and octave-forge
| includes definitions for five new types.  The simplist is a
| triangular matrix type defined in extra/linear-algebra/ov-re-tri.h.
| The others are in main/comm, main/symbolic, main/sparse,
| and main/miscellaneous/dispatch.cc.  Plus you can see how 
| types are defined in the octave code, which you will need to
| understand structure dereferencing anyway.

Un?fortunately, with the recent changes to support N-d array types in
Octave, the octave_value internals have changed significantly.  I
probably broke some of the things in octave-forge, but should have
some time to help to put them back together this coming week.

jwe