Re: Using qt dialogs in Octave 4.0.0

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Sergio 
>To: 
>Cc: address@hidden
>2015-07-08 4:39 GMT-03:00 Mike Miller :
>
>On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 14:32:22 -0300, Sergio wrote:
>>> I'm using Octave 4.0.0 under MS Windows 7 (64 bits), and I'm building a GUI
>>> based in Qt for some parameters of m script. Basically I'm using Qt Creator
>>> to build a dialog skeleton, then use uic command (from Octave binary
>>> distribution) to make the user interface header, and compile the dialog
>>> sources. Then use the header and the object file to make the call from a
>>> oct file (the files are attached).
>>
>>That certainly seems like something someone may want to do, but there is
>>probably no good way to integrate such a Qt oct-file with the Octave GUI
>>currently.
>>
>>> I think the problem is because the second window don't have reference to
>>> the handle of the main window of the GUI. In qt, this is simplement taken
>>> from "this" keyword when a second dialog is created from the main window.
>>> But in this escene, with octave and the GUI, how can access the handle the
>>> main windows from a oct file?
>>
>>Probably what you're looking for is some API in the Octave library to
>>get a reference to the Octave GUI window, maybe even other subcomponents
>>of the GUI? That does not yet exist in a well-defined public header
>>file.
>>
>>I think the expectation is that most users will use the ui* interpreter
>>functions to create dialogs and interfaces directly from m-files without
>>the need to compile an oct-file that uses Qt.
>>
>>Not saying that what you're doing is wrong, but I don't think Octave's
>>GUI is written in a way to support it yet, possibly no Octave developers
>>anticipated that someone would want to do this.
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>--
>>mike

>Hi Mike,
>First at all thanks for your answer. 
>Some time ago (when octave had no official GUI interface) I worked to do some 
>integration between qt libraries and octave. But I used pipes and don't work 
>fine under Ms Windows. Now, with the new version of octave gui (qt based) I 
>want to return to this work making some GUIs for m scripts files.
>This is my motivation, but I don't find information about how can do this. I 
>try for this way because the qt library was distributed with the octave 
>windows binaries but I'm not sure about what is the best way.
>You know where can I find some link about how can use some  ui* interpreter 
>functions to create dialogs and interfaces directly from m-files?
>Thanks a lot.
>Sergio


In octave manual,
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/GUI-Development.html#GUI-Development


But I do not know that you will satisfy the above.

Tatsuro