Re: handle graphics

[N Smethurst]

So after ignoring us for years, John finally decides to take an interest 
in what must be considered the biggest downfall of an otherwise 
excellent numeric software system.

I must admit that I lost most of my interest in developing KVisualiser 
after having failed to attract even the smallest amount of help from the 
core Octave developers - i.e. those who really understand the (difficult 
to understand) inner workings of the C++ code. My project has been on 
hold for a while now, and I am reluntant to restart it unless I see some 
positive action to create a plugin based handle graphics hierarchy in 
Octave.

Ole and I discussed this issue to death in 2002/2003. All we need is 
that someone with an intimate understanding of the C++ code in Octave 
creates a plugin based framework consisting of an octave_value based 
class hierarchy based on the handle graphics hierarchy. We (everyone 
interested in creating visualisation applications that work with Octave) 
would then be responsible for doing everything else.

What we cannot easily do is understand the poorly documented internals 
of the Octave code base. We need someone like John to do that.

Nicholas


John W. Eaton a écrit :

> [I'm copying this to the graphics list, but since that is mostly
> dormant now, I'd prefer to discuss this on the maintainers list, so
> please reply there.  --jwe]
>
> Is anyone actively working on implementing handle graphics for Octave?
>