Re: Using QtHandles as the graphics toolkit

[Nick Jacobs]

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> From: Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>
>To: Nick Jacobs <address@hidden> 
>Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
>Sent: Monday, 27 April 2015, 15:59
>Subject: Re: Using QtHandles as the graphics toolkit
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>On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Nick Jacobs <address@hidden> wrote:
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>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)/
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>>That's all that the README says should be necessary. But when I start Octave 
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>>graphics_toolkit qt
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>>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
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>>available_graphics_toolkits
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>>it just lists fltk and gnuplot.
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>>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?
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>Try to run "__init_qt__" from octave GUI.
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>Michael.
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Tried this, result was a SIGSEGV.
Nick