Octave GUI: QtHandles and Race Conditions

[Jacob Dawid]

Hello everyone,

I have been discussing the issues that we can solve within GSoC with Jordi. Now we think there are two major points to solve first: Integration of Qt Handles to have the same GUI Toolkit for rendering graphs like we have for the GUI and fixing the race conditions.

So, basically, there are two big questions:

1.) How difficult would it be to integrate QtHandles? What work needs to be done to have this working?

2.) How could we fix the race conditions with refcounting? Why does atomic refcounting not help? An idea that I came up with was to introduce a callback function in which the GUI code has the opportunity to safely read variables.

Greetings,

Jacob