Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)

[John Swensen]

On Nov 27, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2008/11/27 Abdelrazak Younes <address@hidden>:
> > FYI, Mingw development is a pita (i.e. slow as hell).
>
> I don't develop on MinGW; I develop on Emacs and I have just
> discovered it's possible to cross compile rather nicely from GNU to
> Windows using MinGW (well, as nice as cross compiling can be, but I
> don't mind it too much). Of course, after I cross compile, I would
> need someone to help me test it...
>
> 2008/11/27 John Swensen <address@hidden>:
> > I am able to compile OctaveDE against
> > any version of Octave >3.0 without any patches or modifications to  
> > Octave.
>
> Really? There's something I'm not understanding, then. The
> octave_server class never got accepted into Octave, did it? At least I
> can't find it, and I did Doxygenise all of the Octave source, so it
> should have shown up in the class list. I thought you were patching
> your own Octave with that class before running OctaveDE on top of it?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jordi G. H.

No patches for Octave are necessary.  The octave_server class is  
included in the OctaveDE sources and a function from the octave_server  
class is registered for the readline idle event loop.  So it pulls  
data from Octave when Octave is idle.

John Swensen