Re: IDE for octave

[Javier Arantegui]

Hello,

El Jueves, 14 de Junio de 2007, Nicolas Pettiaux escribió:
> The IDE is moderately necessary, but would be very welcomed, but the
> graph  zooming function with the mouse *is* needed as it is currently
> used in matlab and considered as necessary.

I suggest you to test QtOctave (1), a GPL'd IDE for Octave. It is based on Qt 
and it can be compiled to work on Linux, Windows or Mac. It is in development 
phase and the authors are pretty receptive about suggestions.

(1) http://qtoctave.wordpress.com

QtOctave has its own internal text editor, in case you wanted to use it, and 
tools for viewing matrixes and the list of variables. It has as well menus 
for plotting, statistics, solving equations, etc. to ease working with 
Octave. That's very interesting for novices. The menus are generated using a 
widgetserver and it seems that it's very easy to write your own.

Zooming using the mouse could be done using Gnuplot, but it's not very 
intuitive.


> We shall use octave on ubuntu feisty.

I use Kubuntu (7.04) and it compiles very easily. It has got a graphical 
installation tool to make things easier.

Javier


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