Re: Octave control via d-bus

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Patrick Noffke
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Did you also look at Pytave? <https://launchpad.net/pytave/>
>> It can't connect to an existing instance, instead Octave is embedded
>> into the Python process. This has the advantage that data don't need
>> to be sent through sockets or pipes (but of course there are also
>> disadvantages).
>> Otherwise, it should enable you to do all the stuff. I've never tried
>> debugging from within Pytave but in principle it could be possible.
>>
>>
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> I did look at it (and I actually had forgotten about it).  It crashed when I
> first tried running one of its tests, and I'm not a python expert, so I
> started looking at other options.

If it still causes problem, please just file a bug report.

> Plus I thought connecting to an existing
> instance and debugging could be useful to others, and d-bus interface would
> also enable interfacing with other languages.

Connecting, maybe - for importing calculated data from Octave, though
I think it would be better if you could teach OOo to read Octave's
saved datafiles. I can't imagine someone crazy enough to debug Octave
scripts from within OpenOffice, but maybe you have more imagination :)

> That said, I'll look at it
> again.  It seems it should have the answer I'm looking for as to how to
> interface to octave's working variables.

OK, nice. Please share your experience if you make it work, I'm interested.

regards

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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