Re: Using QtHandles as the graphics toolkit

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- Nick Jacobs  wrote:
> I'm using Debian Jessie (up-to-date as of 2015-04-26) and installed 
> everything necessary except QtHandles itself from the Debian repository 
> (QtHandles doesn't seem to be in the Jessie repository).
> I cloned the QtHandles repository at github.com/goffioul/QtHandles and built 
> it with qmake and make, successfully.
> The as root, I installed it with the install.sh script (which copied 
> __init_qt__.oct , PKG_ADD and COPYING to
>  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/3.8.2/oct/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/QtHandles)/
> 
> 
> That's all that the README says should be necessary. But when I start 
> Octave and type:
> graphics_toolkit qt
> 
> the response is:
> error: graphics_toolkit: qt toolkit is not available
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/util/graphics_toolkit.m at line 70, 
> column 5
> 
> 
> and if I type:
> 
> 
> available_graphics_toolkits
> 
> it just lists fltk and gnuplot.
> 
> 
> It seems I've missed out some vital step, but what? Do I have to build 
> octave from source with some special configuration option for it to see 
> QtHandles?
> 

I do not know much about the qt handles. 

However, qt based graphics toolkit is implemented to the octave core from ver. 
4.0. I recommend that you build the octave 4.0.0-rc3 and try to use the qt 
based graphics toolkit. 

Tatsuro