Re: curses on octave

[taltman]

On Dec 19, 2003 at 1:55am, address@hidden wrote:

wtm >Thank you for your soon answer,

No prob.

wtm >
wtm >I have written an audio to midi converter using octave, it is available
wtm >at http://wave2mid.sourceforge.net

Cool! Kudos to your for using Octave to write that, instead of
reinventing the wheel.

wtm >
wtm >But the user interface is horrible (at the moment I am only using the
wtm >'menu' command, and I would like to improve it.

Wait, I'm confused: you want to improve your program, or Octave's
"menu" function? If the former, then you probably want to leave the
Octave component of your app as it is, and just throw on a ncurses GUI
that does some inter-process communication. If the latter, then I'm
sure that some of the Octave gurus on this list would love to have
someone work on that bit of code. 

The "menu" function is provided by a script called "menu.m", which can
be found under "scripts/miscellaneous" in the main Octave source
distribution. Hack all you want, thank GNU.

Something you may want to consider is using the function "keyboard" in a
conditional loop. This gives you your own "Octave read-eval-print-loop
(REPL)", that you can tweak & change ( but that's just me; a
meta-linguistic abstraction nut... ).

HTH,

~Tomer



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