Re: When will the new GUI be ready?

[Israel Herraiz]

Excerpts from Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso's message of Mon Oct 29 19:19:34 +0100 
2012:
> And you fixed them. Looks like we could really use your help. I wish
> you hadn't completely forked off the GUI. I think it's gonna be very
> difficult to integrate your changes back in. Perhaps we can just
> replace our fork with yours?

Go ahead. I would be very glad to see some of my code in Octave :). I
have some time constraints, so I am not sure how involved I could be
myself, but if any of what I have written might be useful for Octave,
I am really glad to share it. It is GPL code after all :).

The main differences of this GUI with Octave are its MATLAB-isms.

For instance, in octave_main_thread I use the options -q and
--traditional, and in octave_link::launch_octave I launch octave in
embedded mode with quit_allowed=false.

The load and save workspace options also use MAT files, for better
MATLAB compatibility.

The editor also uses the MATLAB lexer instead of the Octave one.

Other than that, I think there are not more MATLAB-isms in my code.

Anyway, I have pulled the GUI from the Hg repository, and I am now
reading the current GUI code, to see if I could submit patches for the
workspace and the history command list, which I think are the main
causes of instability. If I do that, I will send my patches to the
maintainers list and/or the tracker at Savannah.

Cheers,
Israel