RE: Windows Package

[Mike G]

Hi Martin,
I ran " pkg describe -verbose windows" as you described below on a regular
install of 3.2.4.
The result was:
octave:19> pkg describe -verbose windows
---
Package name:
        windows
Version:
        1.0.8
Short description:
        Provides COM interface and additional functionality on Windows
Status:
        Not loaded
---
Provides:
Windows Utilities
        grab
        win32_MessageBox
        win32_ReadRegistry
        win32api
COM Interface
        actxserver
        com_atexit
        com_delete
        com_get
        com_invoke
        com_release
        com_set
Examples
        mat2xls
octave:20>

so I guess it is there and does load without any fancy footwork.
Running Win 7, 64 bit.

Mike G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Helm [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:27 AM
To: address@hidden
Cc: John Hudock
Subject: Re: Windows Package

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010 17:14:55 schrieb Martin Helm:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010 15:38:49 schrieb John Hudock:
> > I did also try to retreive the package from
> > http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php after I installed the 3.2.4
> > version of Octave and found the Windows package still empty, with no
> > luck. Even the description of the package at
> > http://octave.sourceforge.net/windows/overview.html shows all the
> > functions not implemented. So I can only imagine that there is an
updated
> > version somewhere, but it is not at all clear where.
> >
> > My pkg list shows:
> > >>> pkg list
> >
> > [snip]
> >           windows *|   1.0.8 | ...\share\octave\packages\windows-1.0.8
> 
> So your windows package is installed and loaded, it is not clear to me
what
> makes you exactly think it is empty? How did you check it?
> Did you look into the folder where it is installed?
> Did you check with
> 
> pkg describe -verbose windows
> 
> and then invoke one of the functions? The functions in the webpage are
>  shown as missing due to a problem in the webpage (when the documentation
>  string is not parsed successfully it is shown as not implemented as I
>  remeber from some discussion here or on the oct-dev mailing list some
time
>  ago).
> 
> With the 3.2.3 installed on a virtual windows machine I see the package
>  exists and the functions are there (I can invoke them).
> Will try the 3.2.4 later.
> 
> - mh
> 

checked now also 3.2.4 windows installer without installing anything else
(of 
course I ticked the octave forge packages in the installer).

After starting octave and
pkg load windows

win32_MessageBox ("title", "text")

gives me a message box with an ok button and title "title" and message
"text".
So maybe your installation went somehow wrong if it is really not there.

- mh
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