Re: Integrate Octave CLI on VSCode under Windows 10

[Markus Mützel]

On 23 Sep 2019 09:06:53 EAlvarez wrote:
> Hello again dear Octave community,
>
> I have the following Problem. I am trying to integrate the Octave CLI
> embedded into VSCode. So far I was able to integrate the CLI version of
> Octave without the GUI support and therefore without the "qt" graphics
> toolkit. I need the toolkit because I am building an app with the Octave
> like GUIDE (Most recent release under Windows 5.1). Since this is not
> supported, Octave would not render the app figure properly.
>
> The shortcut created at the Octave installation CLI, do open the same
> Terminal as if I was using the GUI. And after typing
> *available_graphics_toolkits* i get all the toolkits including "qt". In the
> \bin folder of Octave there is a octave-cli.exe file which opens fine and
> can be embedded into VSCode. But where do i find the executable file for the
> other terminal?
>
> The only way that I was able to execute this, was on cmd by typing *octave
> --no-gui* and setting the PATH before that. The Problem is that this is not
> a standalone executable like the normal CLI provided in the Distribution.
>
> Is there a way to get this working as an executable?
>
> Thank you all in advance!

I am not familiar with VSCode. But you might want to have a look on 
"octave.vbs",
which we use to run Octave on Windows.
It basically sets some environment variables before calling
"octave-gui.exe --no-gui"

HTH,
Markus