Re: Octave in Universities

[Henry F. Mollet]

I tried MATLAB at the same time I've started using OCTAVE and noticed that
there was no GUI to speak of and continued using OCTAVE. Why is it so
difficult to provide a proper GUI or a combination of GUI and command line
interface (CLI). The people with good memory can use the much faster CLI,
others can use the GUI which will also write the commands to the CLI window
and now they can be used there and modified if necessary if one does not
want to go back to the GUI. I need a little help to get started with the CLI
each time. In particular, if my uses are weeks or months apart.

At one time we only had CLI, then came the Mac with a user-friedly GUI, then
came Windows copying the Mac GUI. Now OS X is Unix-based, a Terminal window
is available for most efficient use, and unfortunately I rarely remember the
commands. Octave is similar, I cannot remember the commands from one day to
the next, and have to look them up in the manual or using help each time.
Henry


on 3/14/06 7:22 AM, John W. Eaton at address@hidden wrote:

> On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
> 
> | -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to avoid it
> as 
> | much as possible)
> 
> In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
> even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
> anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
> least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
> the GUI window.  So, when people are saying that they can't live
> without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
> few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
> familiar "Edit" button).  Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.
> 
> jwe
> 
> 
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