This is very similar to what I want to do! However, I probably need a
little more performance. I also thought to use gnuplot in that way, and
perhaps now I can just use that code to test it. However, my idea was
to have a function to draw a triangle soup, line soup and text. This
way you don't loop in octave or transmit information through a pipe,
for instance.
One thing I forgot to link in the previous email, regarding the
IDE-octave communication. Apparently, embedding octave is very easy!
http://octave.sourceforge.net/octave_embed.tar.gz. This means that communicating by pipes is harder!
Also, about "politics" (don't flame me for my nomenclature!) I know
that people are going to pull all kinds of ways (use GTK! use gnuplot!
use FLTK! use python! Communicate with pipes! With CORBA!) but I think
I get a lot more work done when I just pick something simple and stick
with it, you guys that code a lot will understand me. If, as John
implies, the octave project's eventually interested in merging a GUI or
IDE officially, you guys can sort out whether the politics fit. It'll
be GPL anyway, I don't have a choice.
Of course, if the politics blow my way, it's probably a good thing
because then I could offload one of the widgets to someone else.
Cheers,
Sébastien Loisel