Re: fltk-Octave on cygwin

[Martin Helm]

Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010, 20:07:20 schrieb fork:
> florence.renalier <florence.renalier <at> laposte.net> writes:
> > Dear all,
> > I am using Octave, installed from Cygwin (on Windows XP). After some
> > research on the Internet, I understoood one of the best ways to include
> > GUIs in Octave (in order to create custom GUIs) is to use flkt-Octave
> > (Am I right ??).
> 
> fltk is a library for plotting graphics (a replacement for gnuplot), not
> interactive GUI's (like popping up dialog boxes and asking for input). So,
> no, you aren't quite right.
> 
> I am not sure how to address the rest of your compilation issues, but they
> might be moot since fltk is not going to do what you want.
> 
> Zenity is probably the best you are going do for GUI interaction, and I
> suggest you look into that.  Octave doesn't support Matlab style GUI
> programming, so far as I know.
> 

I think there is a misunderstanding, you are speaking about the backend fltk, 
which is not for gui's but for plotting. fltk-octave was a gui project for 
octave. It went the same way as many other such projects. After a while it was 
unmaintained or unfinished.

It will be a lot of (maybe wasted) work to make fltk-octave work again.

If you want to build sophisticated gui with callback from and to octave use 
the java package from octave forge and interact with java (I use that) or have 
a look at the pytave python bindings which are maintained and look promising 
(though I do not use them).

- mh