Re: gui front end for Octave for Windows - was: Woctave-another gui front end

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On 12/21/2012 05:48 AM, Wolfgang Lindner wrote:

> I recommended to use UPM-Octave Release 6 for Windows.
> Some hints:
> 
> . you can change the language to english
>   just removing the languages directory under the bin directory.
>   That should enjoy your students.

That worked great.  Thank you.

> 
> . Currently you have to download packages for octave homepage
>   and then install it inside UPM using pkg install/load commands
>   just like in Octave.
> 

I tried this with odepkg.  Unfortunately it didn't work, because octave
has to build some of the source code.  So what I did instead was to
simply download ode45.m from a web site, and it works great.  It was
able to solve the lorenz attractor, and basically this about all I will
need.

But really the packages need to be prebuilt before they can be
installed.  (ode45 is itself a matlab file, but odepkg also includes
some rather high powered solvers that need to be compiled using fortran.)

> It works along the command lines in the command window:
> 
>> s = input("package name: ","s");
>> tar([s '.tar'],s);
>> gzip([s '.tar']);
>> pkg install s.tar.gz
>> pkg list
> 
> You find complete instuctions and examples e.g. in the
> nice online book from Jesper Schmidt Hansen.
> 
> Israel Herraiz plans to automate this process using
> menus in the next release Octave-UPM-R7-forWindows.
> 
> best
> Wolfgang