Crude macro/toolbar for fltk plot window

[Judd Storrs]

Hi,

I've decided I crave a toolbar-ish thing for productivity reasons. So, I've hacked together a very crude toolbar-ish modification to the fltk window (also works well when combined with the zenity package). It adds a bar across the top of the window with eight buttons that call fltk_macro_run(n) [n being the button number, 1:8].  The default fltk_macro_run.m just prints a message to the terminal, you change the behavior by replacing fltk_macro_run. An example that does something is:

function fltk_macro_run(n)

  switch n

    case 1

      plot(sin(1:0.1:10)) ;

    case 2

      plot(1:10) ;

    otherwise

      disp(n) ;

  endswitch

  drawnow ;

  fflush(stdout) ;

endfunction

I doubt this is useful for octave generally (probably octave wants uitoolbar, uipushtool, uitoggletool interfaces), but possibly some people may find it useful in the interim. One thing I tried was to compile a separate fltk_backend.oct that could possibly go towards octave-forge but I couldn't figure out how to load the .oct and replace the builtin fltk backend, but that could be driver error.  I don't yet understand how the handle graphics are changing/working and interacting with fltk_backend.cc in octave so I'm not sure where to start looking about how to move this towards a uitoolbar-style interface (a simple "start looking here" would be helpful). 

Any comments/pointers welcome.

--judd

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