From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Oct  7 09:24:21 2004
Subject: Re: Embedding Octave
From: "Ian Reinhart Geiser" <geiseri at yahoo dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: geiseri at yahoo dot com, "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,         maintainers@octave.org
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:23:42 -0400 (EDT)


John W. Eaton said:
> On  7-Oct-2004, Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri at yahoo dot com> wrote:
>
> | Could you please elaborate on "hook" functions?  Or are you speaking
> about
> | modifying the internal Octave methods to call hooks?
>
> Yes.  So your code would register a function (or functions) to be
> called.  Octave would be modified to call the function(s) at the
> appropriate place(s) in the input and help functions.
So how would we attack this?  The immediate ones that I can see are plot()
and input().  I would be willing to create a patch, but I am still trying
to get my head around the code.  With some direction I could probably do
it.

Cheers
  -ian reinhart geiser


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