GUI work

[Jonathan Stickel]

John Swensen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 11/25/08 octave-maintainers-request at cae.wisc.edu wrote:
>>
>> It seems you have something that is fairly functional.  It has been a 
>> long time since I used Matlab's IDE, but I remember it was helpful to 
>> use items 2-3, which you say are 100% complete.  Would you mind making 
>> a version release on the project's sourceforge site?  I am capable of 
>> downloading the cvs/svn code, but I bet you will see a bit more use, 
>> testing, and feedback if you make a release.
>>
>> Jonathan
> 
> I took your suggestion and made a source code release on Sourceforge.  
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176034&package_id=202369&release_id=644740 
> 
> I marked it at version 0.2, since the version included in the 3.0.1 
> Windows release was marked 0.1.  Since I took the time to get 'make 
> dist' working, it should be easier to make source code releases in the 
> future.  This version has the ability to compile in my simple help 
> browser.  The following configure options are relevant:
> 
> --with-octave300        This is for 3.0.x versions of Octave
> --without-octave300    (default) This is for recent Mercurial snapshots
> 
> --with-webkit            (default) This compiles in the webkit based 
> help browser (also requires Xapian)
> --without-webkit        This doesn't compile in the help browser.
> 
> I am not an autotools wizard, so I couldn't figure out how to do a 
> pkg-config check that is platform dependent.  For some reason on Ubuntu, 
> the webkit pkgconfig is different that other Linux and OSX platforms I 
> have worked on.  Help would be appreciated.
> 
> John Swensen
> 

I gave it a quick try.  It compiled OK on my Mac OS X (10.4.11), but 
without the webkit since I couldn't resolve the dependency at the 
moment.  Interestingly, I got this error on make install (last 4 lines):

...
/opt/local/bin/ginstall: omitting directory `./ui'
make[2]: *** [install-dist_dataDATA] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

However, it seems that at least the important parts were installed and I 
could run it.  It looks nice to me, and I executed a few commands, 
including from the command history window.

I occasionally got a few gtk-warnings in my command window.  Is this 
normal?  Anyway to turn off these warnings or dump them elsewhere? 
Also, if I closed octavede by menu quit or window close, it hung or 
crashed octave.  Typing exit in the command window worked fine.

Regards,
Jonathan