Re: GUI variable editor patch pushed and some help needed

[Torsten]

On 23.08.2017 09:37, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote
>> I pushed a patch for a GUI variable editor:
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8656
>>
>> This change is the work of a number of people including Rüdiger 
>> Sonderfeld, Philip Nienhuis, and Michael Barnes.
>>
>> It seems to work, but I think there is a lot more to be done before it 
>> is really finished.  But, as I said on the patch tracker, I went ahead 
>> and pushed this addition now instead of waiting until the patch is 
>> "perfect" because in my experience, waiting for that will mean that the 
>> patch will never be pushed.
>>
>> Currently, when starting Octave with no qt-settings file, I see the 
>> variable editor window placed to the right of the command window, not 
>> inside of the tabbed widget that contains the terminal, code editor, and 
>> doc browser widgets.
> 
> You're right, but on my boxes (mainly Windows) the variable Editor pane used
> to be stretched along the bottom of the Octave window below all other panes,
> rather than to the right of them.
> 
> I'll post a few more known Variable Editor issues to the bug tracker the
> next days (no fear, there aren't that many AFAIK).

Great tool!

Concerning the placing of the widget: I think that the initial window
layout is also stored in the default qt-settings file, which is created
in case no qt-settings are found. Maybe we can drop this, I will have a
look at it.

Torsten