GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2008/12/1 John Swensen <jpswensen at comcast.net>:
> [comments on the problems I found when compiling and using OctaveDE]

Thanks for these. I'll look into them.

> I am indifferent to user input, but I don't have the time to invest in a
> complete rewrite of the Octave input and output mechanisms.  That sounds
> like an awfully large task and probably more involved that I am capable of
> taking on.

Yes, of course. I'm not expecting you or anyone else to work on this.
I'm interested on working on it myself, and I'm very chatty and like
to talk a lot about what I do are am planning to do.

> It is also very different than my normal mode of operation for
> Matlab/Octave.

Well, contrary to popular belief, not all change sucks. ;-)

I saw someone implement such a worksheet interface in Qt for GAP[1],
which usually operates on a manner very similar to Octave with scripts
and a terminal. GAP even uses readline too, so it might even be easy
to adapt this Qt GUI for Octave... Hm... but that means developing for
QtOctave instead of OctaveDE.

Ack. It's hard to choose on what to focus my attention.

- Jordi G. H.

[1] http://ggap.sf.net