Re: Implementation of "uicontrol" for latest Octave?

[Martin Helm]

Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 02:21:21 schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> Hello
> 
> Current situation of Jhandle has been written by Michael as a reply to the
> ML topic.
> 
> Trouble with jhandles--installation issue?
> 
> Thread
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation-issu
> e-tt2317282.html
> 
> Point to Michal's reply
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation-issu
> e-td2317282.html#a2320473
> 
> AS sentence in the above post
> *****
> So the bottom line is: current jhandles implementation is not suited for
> current octave code. *****
> 
> Perhaps this is the reason why the jhandle package is disappeared from the
> current octave-forge site.
> 
> I am not a Matlab user so that the above is all I can tell you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> --- Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As a new Octave user, I am trying to get our lab's Matlab graphics
> > program (in the form of a bunch of .m files) to work in Octave. I loaded
> > them up and try to run it, but it told me that there is no definition of
> > the "uicontrol" function.
> > After some searching, I realised that "uicontrol" might not be
> > implemented in Octave yet, but there exists the JHandles package that
> > takes care of it. Unfortunately, I cannot find a place to download this
> > package anywhere, including Octave Forge. Therefore:
> > 
> > 1. Is there a place to download the latest JHandles package?
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > 2. Is there an alternative solution to getting my program to work?
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > P.S. I am running Octave under Mac OS X 10.6.

You can give jhandles 0.3.5 a try if you are working with octave 3.2.4 and the 
java-1.2.7 package

http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-05-08/jhandles-0.3.5.tar.gz/download

I compiled it on my linux machine for 3.2.4 and with that version this 
jhandles version works (I have also the development version and 3.3.52 on my 
machine but never tried to make it run with the newer versions and I guess it 
will not work without changes to the source code).
Since it works on my linux machine but has problems with the same octave 
version on windows machines there is no guarantee that it will work on mac.

But maybe it is worth the effort to try this combination.

- mh